CVE-2021-42096

medium

Description

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrf_token value is derived from the admin password, and may be useful in conducting a brute-force attack against that password.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4991

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1947639

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/21/4

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce%40python.org/thread/IKCO6JU755AP5G5TKMBJL6IEZQTTNPDQ/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-21

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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