CVE-2016-6893

high
Published 2016-09-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the user options page in GNU Mailman 2.1.x before 2.1.23 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify an option, as demonstrated by gaining access to the credentials of a victim's account.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6893.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnumailman2.1
gnumailman2.1.1
gnumailman2.1.2
gnumailman2.1.3
gnumailman2.1.4
gnumailman2.1.5
gnumailman2.1.6
gnumailman2.1.8
gnumailman2.1.9
gnumailman2.1.10
gnumailman2.1.10b1
gnumailman2.1.10b3
gnumailman2.1.10b4
gnumailman2.1.11
gnumailman2.1.12
gnumailman2.1.13
gnumailman2.1.14
gnumailman2.1.14-1
gnumailman2.1.15
gnumailman2.1.16
gnumailman2.1.17
gnumailman2.1.18
gnumailman2.1.18-1
gnumailman2.1.19
gnumailman2.1.20
gnumailman2.1.21
gnumailman2.1.22
gnumailman2.1.23

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.