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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-1000671): Sympa vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 6, 2018
Added
Aug 5, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

sympa version 6.2.16 and later contains a CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in The "referer" parameter of the wwsympa.fcgi login action. that can result in Open redirection and reflected XSS via data URIs. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim's browser must follow a URL supplied by the attacker. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in none available.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-sympa
Title
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