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CentOS 7 : mailman (CESA-2020:1054)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135327

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1054 advisory.

 - mailman: Cross-site scripting vulnerability allows malicious listowners to inject scripts into listinfo pages (CVE-2018-0618)

 - mailman: Mishandled URLs in Utils.py:GetPathPieces() allows attackers to display arbitrary text on trusted sites (CVE-2018-13796)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5f52c3a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135327

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-1054.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2020

Updated: 5/19/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mailman, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0618, CVE-2018-13796

RHSA: 2020:1054