National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1177
Original release date:01/10/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the driver script in mailman before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL, which is not properly escaped in the resulting error page.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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This issue did not affect the versions of mailman shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. In addition, we believe this issue does not apply to the 2.0.x versions of
mailman due to setting of STEALTH_MODE
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External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-674
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050110 [USN-59-1] mailman vulnerabilities
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287555
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: mailman-script-driver-xss(18854)
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 13603
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:235
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2005:007
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2005:015