SB2018030727 - Fedora 27 update for mailman

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SB2018030727 - Fedora 27 update for mailman

Published: March 7, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2018030727
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6893)

The vulnerability allows attackers to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect validation of HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a malicious page with CSRF exploit and obtain victim's password.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable application.


2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5950)

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References