Mailman Web CGIs List Information Two Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Mailman, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary scripting code. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the "Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py" and "Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py" scripts when processing list information, which could allow cross site scripting attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Mailman versions prior to 2.1.14rc1
     
Solution   Upgrade to Mailman version 2.1.14rc1 : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/
     
CVE   CVE-2010-3089
     
References   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000153.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000150.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000151.html
https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.14rc1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631881
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2010-09-14 

 Target Type 
Client 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote