CVE-2021-33038
Description
An issue was discovered in management/commands/hyperkitty_import.py in HyperKitty through 1.3.4. When importing a private mailing list's archives, these archives are publicly visible for the duration of the import. For example, sensitive information might be available on the web for an hour during a large migration from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 1.3.5-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.3.4-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.3.4-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.3.4-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.3.4-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.3.4-4 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | hyperkitty | <1.3.5 | 1.3.5 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33038
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h39g-q63v-4h9p
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/hyperkitty/PYSEC-2021-77.yaml
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/blob/master/doc/news.rst#L83-L87
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/commit/9025324597d60b2dff740e49b70b15589d6804fa
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/issues/380
- https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/11/discovering-and-fixing-cve-2021-33038-in-mailman3
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4922
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-33038
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.