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SCA: security update for mailman (GHSA-xqvg-xm9m-p2c4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422811

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28. A crafted URL can cause arbitrary text to be
 displayed on a web page from a trusted site. (CVE-2018-13796)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqvg-xm9m-p2c4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422811

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13796

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13796

cwe: CWE-20