Cross-site request forgery in Mailman - CVE-2016-6893
Published: September 7, 2016 / Updated: December 6, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU365
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6893
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Mailman
Mailman
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows attackers to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect validation of HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a malicious page with CSRF exploit and obtain victim's password.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable application.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-6893
Update to version 2.1.23.