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Mailman Cross-Site Scripting and Weak Password Generation Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA13603  
Release Date: 2005-01-12

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Brute force
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Mailman 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2004-1143 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2004-1177 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and potentially brute force a user's password.

1) Input is not properly sanitised by "scripts/driver" when returning error pages. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML or script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site by tricking a user into visiting a malicious web site or follow a specially crafted link.

2) A weakness in the algorithm of the automatic password generation causes only about five million different passwords to be generated. This makes it easier to brute force automatically generated passwords.

Solution:
1) Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a proxy or firewall with URL filtering capabilities.
2) Choose a strong password for subscriptions, instead of letting Mailman generate one.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Florian Weimer
2) ZENDAS



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

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8. Mailman Admin Pages Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
9. Mailman Cross Site Scripting


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