CVE-2021-42096 (GCVE-0-2021-42096)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-21 00:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:22
VLAI
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.
CWE
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References
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