Bug 1370155 (CVE-2016-6893) - CVE-2016-6893 mailman: CSRF protection missing in the user options page
Summary: CVE-2016-6893 mailman: CSRF protection missing in the user options page
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-6893
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1370156 1846062 2024884
Blocks: 1370159
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-08-25 12:11 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-12-02 16:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mailman 2.1.23
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Last Closed: 2016-08-29 04:42:30 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4913 0 None None None 2021-12-02 16:21:31 UTC

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
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