CVE-2021-42097

Description

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A csrf_token value is not specific to a single user account. An attacker can obtain a value within the context of an unprivileged user account, and then use that value in a CSRF attack against an admin (e.g., for account takeover).

Risk Information

Base Score
8.0
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.614

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
mailman security update(DSA-4991-1) mailman_2.1.29-1+deb10u2_i386.debLinux
mailman security update(DSA-4991-1) mailman_2.1.29-1+deb10u2_amd64.debLinux
Web-based mailing list manager (USN-5121-1) mailman_2.1.26-1ubuntu0.4_i386.debLinux
Web-based mailing list manager (USN-5121-1) mailman_2.1.26-1ubuntu0.4_amd64.debLinux
Web-based mailing list manager (USN-5121-2) mailman_2.1.29-1ubuntu3.1_amd64.debLinux
(RHSA-2021:4826) mailman:2.1 security update mailman-2.1.29-12.module+el8.5.0+13211+e8845b76.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:4826) mailman:2.1 security update mailman-debugsource-2.1.29-12.module+el8.5.0+13211+e8845b76.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:4913) mailman security update mailman-2.1.15-30.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Mailman update (ELSA-2021-4826) mailman-2.1.29-12.module+el8.5.0+20429+dde04a6e.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
Mailman update (ELSA-2021-4913) mailman-2.1.15-30.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Mailman update (ELSA-2021-4916) mailman-2.1.29-12.module+el8.5.0+20436+78a1860c.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:4913)Important: security update mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-30.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234