RHEL 6 : mailman (RHSA-2018:0504)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108327

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mailman.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0504 advisory.

Mailman is a program used to help manage e-mail discussion lists.

Security Fix(es):

* mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI (CVE-2018-5950)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL mailman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:0504.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?edd2a4af

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0504

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537941

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108327

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0504.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5950

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5950

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2018:0504