CVE-2021-42097 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in GNU Mailman versions prior to 2.1.35, affecting Debian and GNU Mailman distributions. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain a CSRF token from an unprivileged account and reuse it to execute a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack against an administrator, potentially leading to account takeover. With a CVSS score of 8.0 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.1.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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