CVE-2018-0618 (GCVE-0-2018-0618)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-26 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:28
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mailman 2.1.26 and earlier allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Cross-site scripting
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announc… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4246 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00846677/index.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4348-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GNU Mailman Mailman Affected: 2.1.26 and earlier
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Date Public
2018-06-22 00:00
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