Bug 1596458 (CVE-2018-0618)

Summary: CVE-2018-0618 mailman: Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows malicious listowners to inject scripts into listinfo pages
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jkaluza, pzhukov, yozone
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Fixed In Version: mailman 2.1.27 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) has been discovered in mailman due to the host_name field not being properly validated. A malicious list owner could use this flaw to create a specially crafted list and inject client-side scripts.
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Bug Depends On: 1596459, 1596460, 1599692    
Bug Blocks: 1596461    

Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-29 03:47:33 UTC
GNU Mailman before version 2.1.27 has a cross-site scripting flaw that allows malicious listowners to inject scripts into listinfo pages.


Upstream Changelog:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2018-June/000236.html
https://launchpad.net/mailman/+milestone/2.1.27


Reference:

https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00846677/

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-29 03:47:56 UTC
Created mailman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1596459]

Comment 5 Riccardo Schirone 2018-07-10 11:58:25 UTC
A malicious list owners can inject scripts into the /mailman/listinfo page of a specially crafted list, due to not validated input in host_name field.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:17:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1054 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1054

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-31 22:32:39 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-0618