RHSA-2021:5081HighCVSS 8.0

Red Hat Security Advisory: mailman:2.1 security update

Published
December 13, 2021
Last Modified
September 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-44227 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-44227 — mailman: CSRF token bypass allows to perform CSRF attacks and admin takeover

🎯 Affected products8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.ppc64le (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.src (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.x86_64 (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-debuginfo-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.ppc64le (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-debuginfo-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.x86_64 (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-debugsource-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.ppc64le (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)
  • mailman-debugsource-3:2.1.29-5.module+el8.1.0+13542+e9b93c88.x86_64 (mailman:2.1) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

🔗 References (4)