CVE-2016-7123

Publication date 2 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the admin web interface in GNU Mailman before 2.1.15 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mailman	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1:2.1.14-3ubuntu0.4

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
mailman	Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1337 Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1340 Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1366 Upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/revision/1392

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

CVE-2016-7123

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Patch details

Severity score breakdown

References

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