Upstream information

CVE-2021-42097 at MITRE

Description

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A csrf_token value is not specific to a single user account. An attacker can obtain a value within the context of an unprivileged user account, and then use that value in a CSRF attack against an admin (e.g., for account takeover).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 8.5
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 8 5.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low High
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction Required None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High None
Availability Impact High None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1191960 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS
  • mailman >= 2.1.15-30.el7_9.2
Patchnames:
RHSA-2021:4913
SUSE Liberty Linux 8
  • mailman >= 2.1.29-12.module+el8.5.0+13211+e8845b76.1
Patchnames:
RHSA-2021:4826
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2
  • mailman >= 2.1.35-bp152.7.6.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2021-1452
openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • mailman >= 2.1.35-lp152.7.6.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2021-1436


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 mailman Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 mailman Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 mailman Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS mailman Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS mailman Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS mailman Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS mailman Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 mailman Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 mailman Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 mailman Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 mailman Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 mailman Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 mailman Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 mailman Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 mailman Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2 mailman Released
Products at an unknown state of their lifecycle.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security mailman Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Oct 21 10:00:18 2021
CVE page last modified: Tue Oct 8 18:32:20 2024