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RHEL 7 : mailman (RHSA-2018:0505)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108328

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for mailman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.

Solution

Update the affected mailman and / or mailman-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0505

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-5950

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108328

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0505.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6

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

RHSA: 2018:0505