CVE-2016-6893

HIGH

GNU Mailman 2.1.x < 2.1.23 - Cross-Site Request Forgery in User Options Page

Title source: llm

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 (4)

Core 4

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

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

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

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

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0034

EPSS Percentile 56.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-352

Status published

Products (28)

gnu/mailman 2.1

gnu/mailman 2.1.1

gnu/mailman 2.1.2

gnu/mailman 2.1.3

gnu/mailman 2.1.4

gnu/mailman 2.1.5

gnu/mailman 2.1.6

gnu/mailman 2.1.8

gnu/mailman 2.1.9

gnu/mailman 2.1.10 (2 CPE variants)

... and 18 more

Published Sep 02, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026