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Mailman < 2.1.9rc1 Spoofed Log Entry Injection
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3737
Synopsis
The remote web server contains a Python application that is affected by a log spoofing vulnerability.Description
The version of Mailman installed on the remote host fails to sanitize user-supplied input before writing it to the application's 'error' log. An unauthenticated remote attacker can leverage this flaw to spoof log messages. In addition, the application is reportedly affected by a denial of service issue involving headers that do not conform to RFC 2231 as well as several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.Solution
Upgrade to version 2.1.9rc1 or higher.See Also
http://moritz-naumann.com/adv/0013/mailmanmulti/0013.txt
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-09/0244.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=444295&group_id=103
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000086.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 3737
Family: CGI
Published: 9/5/2006
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 22307
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.2
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:gnu:mailman