CVE-2021-40347
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
An issue was discovered in views/list.py in GNU Mailman Postorius before 1.3.5. An attacker (logged into any account) can send a crafted POST request to unsubscribe any user from a mailing list, also revealing whether that address was subscribed in the first place.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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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 | 1.3.5-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.3.4-2+deb11u1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.3.5-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.3.5-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.3.5-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | postorius | <1.3.5 | 1.3.5 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40347
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993746
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/postorius/PYSEC-2021-319.yaml
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/commit/3d880c56b58bc26b32eac0799407d74b64b7474b
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/531
- https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/tags
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289798
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4970
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40347
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.