5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.7%
The target is running a version of the Mailman mailing list software that allows a list subscriber to retrieve the mailman password of any other subscriber by means of a specially crafted mail message to the server. That is, a message sent to $listname-request@$target containing the lines :
password address=$victim password address=$subscriber
will return the password of both $victim and $subscriber for the list $listname@$target.
***** Nessus has determined the vulnerability exists on the target***** simply by looking at the version number of Mailman installed***** there.
#
# This script was written by George A. Theall, <[email protected]>.
#
# See the Nessus Scripts License for details.
#
# Changes by Tenable:
# - Revised plugin title, output formatting (9/2/09)
# - Revised plugin title (8/13/12)
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(12253);
script_version("1.23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0412");
script_bugtraq_id(10412);
script_xref(name:"CLSA", value:"CLSA-2004:842");
script_xref(name:"FLSA", value:"FEDORA-2004-1734");
script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"GLSA-200406-04");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"MDKSA-2004:051");
script_name(english:"Mailman Crated Email Remote User Password Disclosure");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host is running a mailing list application that is
affected by a password disclosure vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The target is running a version of the Mailman mailing list software
that allows a list subscriber to retrieve the mailman password of any
other subscriber by means of a specially crafted mail message to the
server. That is, a message sent to $listname-request@$target
containing the lines :
password address=$victim
password address=$subscriber
will return the password of both $victim and $subscriber for the list
$listname@$target.
***** Nessus has determined the vulnerability exists on the target
***** simply by looking at the version number of Mailman installed
***** there.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2004-May/000072.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Mailman version 2.1.5 or newer as this reportedly fixes
the issue.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/05/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/05/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:gnu:mailman");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"enable_cgi_scanning", value:"true");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Misc.");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2024 George A. Theall");
script_dependencies("global_settings.nasl", "http_version.nasl", "mailman_detect.nasl");
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
exit(0);
}
include("global_settings.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE);
if (!get_port_state(port)) exit(0);
debug_print(level: 2, "checking for Mailman Password Retrieval vulnerability on port ", port, ".");
# Check each installed instance, stopping if we find a vulnerability.
installs = get_kb_list(string("www/", port, "/Mailman"));
if (isnull(installs)) exit(0);
foreach install (installs) {
matches = eregmatch(string:install, pattern:"^(.+) under (/.*)$");
if (!isnull(matches)) {
ver = matches[1];
dir = matches[2];
debug_print(level:2, "checking version ", ver, " under ", dir, ".");
if (ereg(pattern:"^2\.1(b[2-6]|rc1|\.[1-4]([^0-9]|$))", string:ver)) {
security_warning(port);
exit(0);
}
}
}