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Red Hat: CVE-2021-42096: CVE-2021-42096 mailman: CSRF token derived from admin password allows offline brute-force attack (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-42096: CVE-2021-42096 mailman: CSRF token derived from admin password allows offline brute-force attack (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/21/2021
Created
11/28/2021
Added
11/26/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrf_token value is derived from the admin password, and may be useful in conducting a brute-force attack against that password.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-mailman
  • redhat-upgrade-mailman-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mailman-debugsource

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