FreeBSD : mailman -- arbitrary content injection vulnerability via options or private archive login pages (88760f4d-8ef7-11ea-a66d-4b2ef158be83)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136385

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Mark Sapiro reports :

A content injection vulnerability via the options login page has been discovered and reported by Vishal Singh.

An issue similar to CVE-2018-13796 exists at different endpoint & param. It can lead to a phishing attack.

(added 2020-05-07) This is essentially the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1873722 except the vector is the private archive login page and the attack only succeeds if the list's roster visibility (private_roster) setting is 'Anyone'.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136385

File Name: freebsd_pkg_88760f4d8ef711eaa66d4b2ef158be83.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/7/2020

Updated: 3/13/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:freebsd:freebsd:mailman, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mailman-with-htdig, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13796

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