A mailman security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 8 Extended LTS to address a potential remote privilege escalation vulnerability.
ELA-500-1 mailman security update
Package mailman
ELA-500-1 mailman security update
Version 1:2.1.18-2+deb8u8
Related CVEs CVE-2021-42096 CVE-2021-42097
It was discovered that there was a potential remote privilege escalation vulnerability in the Mailman mailing list manager.
Some CSRF token values were derived from the admin password, and that could have been used to conductg a brute-force attack against that password.
For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1.18-2+deb8u8.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailman packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found at: https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/
