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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-42096): Mailman vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-42096): Mailman vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/21/2021
Created
10/28/2021
Added
10/22/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-mailman

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