Bug 1370155 (CVE-2016-6893)

Summary:	CVE-2016-6893 mailman: CSRF protection missing in the user options page
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dkholia, jkaluza, psimerda
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mailman 2.1.23	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2016-08-29 04:42:30 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1370156, 1846062, 2024884
Bug Blocks:	1370159

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-08-25 12:11:24 UTC

A CSRF vulnerability was found in mailman's user options page. This could conceivably allow an attacker to obtain a user's password.

References:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2016-August/000225.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-08-25 12:12:55 UTC

Created mailman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1370156]

Comment 2 Dhiru Kholia 2016-08-29 04:16:33 UTC

Upstream patch:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2016-August/000226.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2021-12-02 16:21:30 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:4913 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4913