Cross-site scripting in Mailman - CVE-2018-0618

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Cross-site scripting in Mailman - CVE-2018-0618

Published: June 30, 2018 / Updated: April 18, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13585
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0618
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Mailman
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Opensuse
Fedora
mailman (Red Hat package)
mailman (Ubuntu package)
mailman

How to mitigate CVE-2018-0618

Update to version 2.1.27.

Mailman - update to 2.1.27
mailman (Red Hat package) - update to 2.1.15-30.el7
mailman (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.4, 1:2.1.26-1ubuntu0.1
mailman - addressed in versions 2.1.21-9.fc27, 2.1.26-2.fc28, 2.1.26-4.fc28

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