CVE-2018-5950
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a user-options URL.
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web UI in Mailman before 2.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a user-options URL.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-01-23 16:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 05:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-01-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1ca7c8d5f6da6555387033db8634cc4cd4eaf93f699ac47c5b5c377931fa6a36
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com104594http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104594
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:0504https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0504
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3563-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3563-1/
- www.mail-archive.com[mailman-users] 20180120 Mailman 2.1.26 Security release Feb 4, 2018https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg70375.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-4108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4108
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:0505https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0505
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1747209
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180209 [SECURITY] [DLA 1272-1] mailman security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00007.html
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159761/Mailman-2.1.23-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- mailman Fixed in 1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.5
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- mailman Fixed in 1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.