Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-3636 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.42%, 93th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28570 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-09-14 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 20.39% | 6.42% | -13.97% |
| 2 | 2026-01-17 | 22.72% | 20.39% | -2.33% |
| 3 | 2025-08-09 | — | 22.72% | — |
Full EPSS history (15 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
gentoo
|
normal | CVE-2006-3636: 1 GLSA(s) (200609-12), 1 atom(s) (net-mail/mailman); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-3636 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-3636 |
ubuntu
|
medium | CVE-2006-3636 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mailman), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-3636 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | mailman | 2.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.1:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.3 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.4 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.5 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.5.8 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.6 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.7 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1.8 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | mailman | 2.1b1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |