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CVE-2016-6893
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…
High8.8EPSS 1.6%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- DSA-3668 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614841 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92731 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1036728 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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