Sympa up to 6.2.61 cookie protection mechanism

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Sympa up to 6.2.61. This impacts an unknown function. Executing a manipulation of the argument cookie can lead to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-46900. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Sympa up to 6.2.61 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument cookie with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Sympa before 6.2.62 relies on a cookie parameter for certain security objectives, but does not ensure that this parameter exists and has an unpredictable value. Specifically, the cookie parameter is both a salt for stored passwords and an XSS protection mechanism.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2023 as 1091. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2021-46900 since 12/31/2023. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 6.2.62 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Sympa

Version

• 6.2.0
• 6.2.1
• 6.2.2
• 6.2.3
• 6.2.4
• 6.2.5
• 6.2.6
• 6.2.7
• 6.2.8
• 6.2.9
• 6.2.10
• 6.2.11
• 6.2.12
• 6.2.13
• 6.2.14
• 6.2.15
• 6.2.16
• 6.2.17
• 6.2.18
• 6.2.19
• 6.2.20
• 6.2.21
• 6.2.22
• 6.2.23
• 6.2.24
• 6.2.25
• 6.2.26
• 6.2.27
• 6.2.28
• 6.2.29
• 6.2.30
• 6.2.31
• 6.2.32
• 6.2.33
• 6.2.34
• 6.2.35
• 6.2.36
• 6.2.37
• 6.2.38
• 6.2.39
• 6.2.40
• 6.2.41
• 6.2.42
• 6.2.43
• 6.2.44
• 6.2.45
• 6.2.46
• 6.2.47
• 6.2.48
• 6.2.49
• 6.2.50
• 6.2.51
• 6.2.52
• 6.2.53
• 6.2.54
• 6.2.55
• 6.2.56
• 6.2.57
• 6.2.58
• 6.2.59
• 6.2.60
• 6.2.61

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