Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-42096 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in multiple products

CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

LOW

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

low complexity

gnu

debian

CWE-307

NVD

Published: 2021-10-21

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

GNU Mailman before 2.1.35 may allow remote Privilege Escalation. A certain csrf_token value is derived from the admin password, and may be useful in conducting a brute-force attack against that password.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Gnu GNU Mailman - GNU Mailman 1.0 GNU Mailman 1.1 GNU Mailman 2.0 GNU Mailman 2.0.1 GNU Mailman 2.0.2 GNU Mailman 2.0.3 GNU Mailman 2.0.4 GNU Mailman 2.0.5 GNU Mailman 2.0.6 GNU Mailman 2.0.7 GNU Mailman 2.0.8 GNU Mailman 2.0.9 GNU Mailman 2.0.10 GNU Mailman 2.0.11 GNU Mailman 2.0.12 GNU Mailman 2.0.13 GNU Mailman 2.0.14 GNU Mailman 2.1 GNU Mailman 2.1.1 GNU Mailman 2.1.2 GNU Mailman 2.1.3 GNU Mailman 2.1.4 GNU Mailman 2.1.5 GNU Mailman 2.1.5.8 GNU Mailman 2.1.6 GNU Mailman 2.1.7 GNU Mailman 2.1.8 GNU Mailman 2.1.9 GNU Mailman 2.1.10 GNU Mailman 2.1.10B1 GNU Mailman 2.1.10B3 GNU Mailman 2.1.10B4 GNU Mailman 2.1.11 GNU Mailman 2.1.12 GNU Mailman 2.1.13 GNU Mailman 2.1.14 GNU Mailman 2.1.14-1 GNU Mailman 2.1.15 GNU Mailman 2.1.16 GNU Mailman 2.1.17 GNU Mailman 2.1.18 GNU Mailman 2.1.18-1 GNU Mailman 2.1.19 GNU Mailman 2.1.20 GNU Mailman 2.1.21 GNU Mailman 2.1.22 GNU Mailman 2.1.23 GNU Mailman 2.1.24 GNU Mailman 2.1.25 GNU Mailman 2.1.26 GNU Mailman 2.1.27 GNU Mailman 2.1.28 GNU Mailman 2.1.29 GNU Mailman 2.1.30 GNU Mailman 2.1.31 GNU Mailman 2.1.33 GNU Mailman 2.1.34	83
OS	Debian Debian Debian Linux 10.0	1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References