Bug 1537941 – CVE-2018-5950 mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI

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Bug 1537941 - (CVE-2018-5950) CVE-2018-5950 mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI

Summary:	CVE-2018-5950 mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5950

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1537942 1545966 1545967 1545973 1545974 1545975
Blocks:	1537944
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Reported:	2018-01-24 02:01 EST by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-03-13 14:51 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	mailman 2.1.26
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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.
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Last Closed:	2018-03-13 14:51:04 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0504	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: mailman security update	2018-03-13 17:18:12 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0505	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: mailman security update	2018-03-13 17:21:14 EDT

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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-24 02:01:36 EST

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 02:01:56 EST

Created mailman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1537942]

Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2018-02-22 16:19:38 EST

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 12:13:13 EDT

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 12:26:07 EDT

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

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