Bug 1537941 (CVE-2018-5950)

Summary:	CVE-2018-5950 mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cmmiller, jkaluza, pebarbos, pzhukov
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mailman 2.1.26	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in mailman. An attacker, able to trick the user into visiting a specific URL, can execute arbitrary web scripts on the user's side and force the victim to perform unintended actions.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-03-13 18:51:04 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1537942, 1545966, 1545967, 1545973, 1545974, 1545975
Bug Blocks:	1537944

Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-24 07:01:36 UTC

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Reference:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888201

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-01-24 07:01:56 UTC

Created mailman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1537942]

Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2018-02-22 21:19:38 UTC

Upstream bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1747209

Upstream commit:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1743

Upstream announcement:

https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg70478.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2018-03-13 16:13:13 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0504 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0504

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-03-13 16:26:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0505 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0505