CVE-2016-7123

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 admin web interface in GNU Mailman before 2.1.15 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.

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-2016-7123.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	mailman	`{"endIncluding":"2.1.14"}`

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92732
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037160
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614841
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7123.html

CWEs

CWE-352

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