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RHEL 8 : mailman:2.1 (RHSA-2021:1751)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149654

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for mailman:2.1.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1751 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * mailman: arbitrary content injection via the options login page (CVE-2020-12108)

 * mailman: arbitrary content injection via the private archive login page (CVE-2020-15011)

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

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL mailman:2.1 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1751.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?862005a9

http://www.nessus.org/u?9b6a6a87

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1751

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848856

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850684

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149654

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1751.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Reference Information

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

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2021:1751