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Debian: Security Advisory for postorius (DSA-4970-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'postorius' package(s) announced via the DSA-4970-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

Kevin Israel discovered that Postorius, the administrative web frontend for Mailman 3, didn't validate whether a logged-in user owns the email address when unsubscribing.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'postorius' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.4-1+deb10u1. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.4-2+deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your postorius packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)