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Summary
Title Mailman vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4348-1 First vendor Publication 2020-04-29
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-04-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Mailman.

Software Description: - mailman: Web-based mailing list manager (legacy branch)

Details:

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to issue execute arbitrary scripts or HTML. (CVE-2018-0618)

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to display arbitrary text on a web page. (CVE-2018-13796)

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-12137)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
mailman 1:2.1.26-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
mailman 1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4348-1
CVE-2018-0618, CVE-2018-13796, CVE-2020-12137

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/1:2.1.26-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4348-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 74
Application 1
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-e071e178f8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-f8fd4c5798.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-02 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b4f0ad3694a511e89007080027ac955c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1442.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4246.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-26 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_739948e378bf11e8b23c080027ac955c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2020-04-29 21:18:08
  • First insertion