FreeBSD : mailman -- script insertion vulnerability (f47f2746-12c5-11dd-bab7-0016179b2dd5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32071

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Secunia reports :

A vulnerability has been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain input when editing the list templates and the list info attribute is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious website is accessed.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/586-1/

http://www.nessus.org/u?79189f35

http://www.nessus.org/u?bb32908d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32071

File Name: freebsd_pkg_f47f274612c511ddbab70016179b2dd5.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 4/28/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-mailman, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mailman, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mailman-with-htdig, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0564

BID: 27630

CWE: 79

Secunia: 28794