USN-3118-1

It was discovered that the Mailman administrative web interface did not protect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into Mailman, a remote attacker could perform administrative actions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7123)

Nishant Agarwala discovered that the Mailman user options page did not protect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into Mailman, a remote attacker could modify user options. (CVE-2016-6893)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / mailman

Package

Name: mailman
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mailman@1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

1:2.*

1:2.1.16~rc2-1

1:2.1.16-1

1:2.1.16-2

1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "mailman",
            "binary_version": "1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-6893",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3118-1.json"

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / mailman