Debian DLA-1272-1 : mailman security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106696

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The mailman package has a Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI before 2.1.26 which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a user-options URL

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1.15-1+deb7u3

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected mailman package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106696

File Name: debian_DLA-1272.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/9/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5950

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