CVE-2021-42096

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-42096
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-21 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionGNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrf_token value is derived from the admin password, and may be useful in conducting a brute-force attack against that password.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-307

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4991-1 mailman DEBIAN www.debian.org
Mailman 3 Mailman 2.1 security release - Mailman-announce - python.org mail.python.org
Mailman 3 Mailman 2.1 security release - Mailman-announce - python.org CONFIRM mail.python.org
Bug #1947639 “Potential Privilege escalation via the user option...” : Bugs : GNU Mailman CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net
oss-security - Mailman 2.1.35 security release MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159542 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for mailman:2.1 (ELSA-2021-4826)
  • 178829 Debian Security Update for mailman (DSA 4991-1)
  • 178842 Debian Security Update for mailman (DLA 2791-1)
  • 198547 Ubuntu Security Notification for Mailman Vulnerabilities (USN-5121-1)
  • 198576 Ubuntu Security Notification for Mailman Vulnerabilities (USN-5121-2)
  • 239908 Red Hat Update for mailman:2.1 (RHSA-2021:4837)
  • 239909 Red Hat Update for mailman:2.1 (RHSA-2021:4839)
  • 239910 Red Hat Update for mailman:2.1 (RHSA-2021:4826)
  • 239911 Red Hat Update for mailman:2.1 (RHSA-2021:4838)
  • 296066 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 40.107.3 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 671247 EulerOS Security Update for mailman (EulerOS-SA-2022-1177)
  • 671336 EulerOS Security Update for mailman (EulerOS-SA-2022-1277)
  • 690228 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mailman (8d65aa3b-31ce-11ec-8c32-a14e8e520dc7)
  • 751319 OpenSUSE Security Update for mailman (openSUSE-SU-2021:1436-1)
  • 752189 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for mailman (SUSE-SU-2022:1886-1)
  • 940372 AlmaLinux Security Update for mailman:2.1 (ALSA-2021:4826)
  • 960352 Rocky Linux Security Update for mailman:2.1 (RLSA-2021:4826)
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