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A vulnerability was found in Mailman up to 2.1.25. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Web UI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
The bug was discovered 01/20/2018. The weakness was presented 01/23/2018 by Salvatore Bonaccorso (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mail-archive.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-5950 since 01/19/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 106726 (Debian DSA-4108-1 : mailman - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 171791 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for mailman (SUSE-SU-2018:4296-1)).
Upgrading to version 2.1.26 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (106726) and SecurityFocus (BID 104594†). See VDB-74796, VDB-91047, VDB-121382 and VDB-122225 for similar entries.
Product
Name
Version
- 2.1.0
- 2.1.1
- 2.1.2
- 2.1.3
- 2.1.4
- 2.1.5
- 2.1.6
- 2.1.7
- 2.1.8
- 2.1.9
- 2.1.10
- 2.1.11
- 2.1.12
- 2.1.13
- 2.1.14
- 2.1.15
- 2.1.16
- 2.1.17
- 2.1.18
- 2.1.19
- 2.1.20
- 2.1.21
- 2.1.22
- 2.1.23
- 2.1.24
- 2.1.25
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1
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Class: Cross site scriptingCWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Nessus ID: 106726
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-4108-1 : mailman - security update
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OpenVAS ID: 10791
OpenVAS Name: Debian Lts Announce DLA 1272-1 ([SECURITY] [DLA 1272-1] mailman security update)
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Upgrade: Mailman 2.1.26
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Advisory: RHSA-2018:0504Researcher: Salvatore Bonaccorso
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-5950 (🔍)
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SecurityFocus: 104594 - GNU Mailman CVE-2018-5950 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Entry
Created: 01/24/2018 08:05 AMUpdated: 02/02/2023 01:57 PM
Changes: 01/24/2018 08:05 AM (76), 12/27/2019 08:54 AM (6), 02/02/2023 01:57 PM (4)
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