Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2791-1 mailman -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
26 Oct 2021
Affected Packages:
mailman
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-42096, CVE-2021-42097.
More information:

It was discovered that there was a potential remote privilege escalation vulnerability in the Mailman mailing-list manager. Some CSRF token values were derived from the admin password, and that could have been used to conductg a brute-force attack against that password.

  • CVE-2021-42096 & CVE-2021-42097

    GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrf_token value is derived from the admin password, and may be useful in conducting a brute-force attack against that password.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1.23-1+deb9u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS