CVE-2016-6893

high

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the user options page in GNU Mailman 2.1.x before 2.1.23 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify an option, as demonstrated by gaining access to the credentials of a victim's account.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3668

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92731

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036728

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614841

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-09-02

Updated: 2017-08-13

Type: CWE-352

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: HIGH