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Debian DLA-2276-1 : mailman security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138390

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The following CVEs were reported against src:mailman.

CVE-2020-12108

/options/mailman in GNU Mailman before 2.1.31 allows Arbitrary Content Injection.

CVE-2020-15011

GNU Mailman before 2.1.33 allows arbitrary content injection via the Cgi/private.py private archive login page.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1.23-1+deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.

For the detailed security status of mailman please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mailman

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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00007.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/mailman

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mailman

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138390

File Name: debian_DLA-2276.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2020

Updated: 3/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2020-12108

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mailman

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12108, CVE-2020-15011