Mailman Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Vulnerability - CVE-2021-42096 - Vulnerability Database

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Mailman Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Vulnerability - CVE-2021-42096

Medium

Reference: CVE-2021-42096

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42096

Title: Mailman Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Vulnerability

Overview:

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.