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🛡️ CVE-2025-43921 on Ubuntu — mailman

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

GNU Mailman 2.1.39, as bundled in cPanel (and WHM), allows unauthenticated attackers to create lists via the /mailman/create endpoint. NOTE: multiple third parties report that they are unable to reproduce this, regardless of whether cPanel or WHM is used.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-43921 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package mailman. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43921 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43921 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mailman

Timeline and source

Published on 20 April 2025 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
code.launchpad.net (Report)

CVE-2025-43921 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-04-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mailman — —

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