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HistoryMay 08, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DLA-2204-1 : mailman security update

2020-05-0800:00:00
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It was discovered that there was an arbitrary content injection vulnerability in the Mailman mailing list manager.

For Debian 8 ‘Jessie’, this issue has been fixed in mailman version 1:2.1.18-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2204-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(136412);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/13");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-12108");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2204-1 : mailman security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that there was an arbitrary content injection
vulnerability in the Mailman mailing list manager.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in mailman version
1:2.1.18-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00007.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/mailman");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected mailman package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-12108");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/05/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/08");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mailman");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mailman", reference:"1:2.1.18-2+deb8u6")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxmailmanp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mailman
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0