VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6893

high
Published 2016-09-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnumailman2.1
gnumailman2.1.1
gnumailman2.1.2
gnumailman2.1.3
gnumailman2.1.4
gnumailman2.1.5
gnumailman2.1.6
gnumailman2.1.8
gnumailman2.1.9
gnumailman2.1.10
gnumailman2.1.10b1
gnumailman2.1.10b3
gnumailman2.1.10b4
gnumailman2.1.11
gnumailman2.1.12
gnumailman2.1.13
gnumailman2.1.14
gnumailman2.1.14-1
gnumailman2.1.15
gnumailman2.1.16
gnumailman2.1.17
gnumailman2.1.18
gnumailman2.1.18-1
gnumailman2.1.19
gnumailman2.1.20
gnumailman2.1.21
gnumailman2.1.22
gnumailman2.1.23

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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