GNU Mailman Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jan 2010)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:gnu:mailman";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100475");
  script_version("2025-04-25T15:41:53+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-04-25 15:41:53 +0000 (Fri, 25 Apr 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-01-29 17:41:41 +0100 (Fri, 29 Jan 2010)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_name("GNU Mailman Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jan 2010)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("mailman_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("gnu_mailman/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mailman is prone to an unspecified privilege escalation
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Local attackers may exploit this issue to obtain elevated
  privileges and compromise the host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mailman version 2.0.2 and 2.0.4, other versions may be
  affected as well.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Updates are available. Please see the references for more
  information.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37984");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) )
  exit( 0 );

if( ! info = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

vers = info["version"];
path = info["location"];

if( version_is_equal( version:vers, test_version:"2.0.2" ) ||
    version_is_equal( version:vers, test_version:"2.0.4" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"See references", install_path:path );
  security_message( port:port, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );