Medium severity · published Jul 12, 2018
CVE-2018-13796
An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28
6.5
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28. A crafted URL can cause arbitrary text to be displayed on a web page from a trusted site.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
Mailman · Gnu
before 2.1.28 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13796
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13796
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1780874
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00034.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-10
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4348-1/
www.mail-archive.com
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg71003.html
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