Vigil@nce - Mailman: Cross Site Request Forgery
January 2017 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of Mailman,
in order to force the victim to perform operations.
Impacted products: Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 02/11/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Mailman product offers a web service.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of
Mailman, in order to force the victim to perform operations.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Mailman-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-21003