6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.5%
The target is running version of the Mailman mailing list software that
allows a list subscriber to retrieve the mailman password of any other subscriber
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004-2005 George A. Theall
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.12253");
script_version("2023-10-06T05:06:29+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-06 05:06:29 +0000 (Fri, 06 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0412");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10412");
script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"6422");
script_xref(name:"CLSA", value:"CLSA-2004:842");
script_xref(name:"FLSA", value:"FEDORA-2004-1734");
script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"GLSA-200406-04");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"MDKSA-2004:051");
script_name("Mailman Password Retrieval");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2004-2005 George A. Theall");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("mailman_detect.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_mandatory_keys("gnu_mailman/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The target is running version of the Mailman mailing list software that
allows a list subscriber to retrieve the mailman password of any other subscriber");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An attacker could exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted mail
message to the server. Such a message sent via $listname-request@$target containing the lines :
password address=$victim
password address=$subscriber
will return the password of both $victim and $subscriber for the list
$listname@$target.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mailman version 2.1.5 or newer.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
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( ereg( pattern:"^2\.1(b[2-6]|rc1|\.[1-4]$)", string:vers ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.1.5", install_path:path );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );