CVE-2016-7123

Publication date 2 September 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the admin web interface in GNU Mailman before 2.1.15 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mailman	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1:2.1.14-3ubuntu0.4

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
mailman	Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1337 Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1340 Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1366 Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1392

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3118-1
Mailman vulnerabilities
1 November 2016