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Unscored USN-5121-2 5 CVEs

mailman vulnerabilities

Published Nov 1, 2021 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

USN-5009-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mailman. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. In addition, the following CVEs
were fixed:

It was discovered that Mailman allows arbitrary content injection. An attacker
could use this to inject malicious content. (CVE-2020-12108, CVE-2020-15011)

It was discovered that Mailman improperly sanitize the MIME content. An
attacker could obtain sensitive information by sending a special type of
attachment. (CVE-2020-12137)

Original advisory details:

Andre Protas, Richard Cloke, and Andy Nuttall discovered that Mailman
did not properly associate cross-site request forgery (CSRF) tokens
to specific accounts. A remote attacker could use this to perform a
CSRF attack to gain access to another account. (CVE-2021-42097)

Andre Protas, Richard Cloke, and Andy Nuttall discovered that Mailman’s
cross-site request forgery (CSRF) tokens for the options page are
derived from the admin password. A remote attacker could possibly use
this to assist in performing a brute force attack against the admin
password. (CVE-2021-42096)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS mailman 1:2.1.29-1ubuntu3.1

Vulnerabilities 5

  • Unscored —

    /options/mailman in GNU Mailman before 2.1.31 allows Arbitrary Content Injection.

  • Unscored —

    GNU Mailman 2.x before 2.1.30 uses the .obj extension for scrubbed application/octet-stream MIME parts. This behavior m…

  • Unscored —

    GNU Mailman before 2.1.33 allows arbitrary content injection via the Cgi/private.py private archive login page.

  • Unscored —

    GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrf_token value is derived from the admin p…

  • Unscored —

    GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A csrf_token value is not specific to a single user ac…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12108
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12137
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15011
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-42096
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-42097