A vulnerability could allow a list moderator to discover the admin password.

Bug #1949403 reported by Mark Sapiro
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GNU Mailman
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Mark Sapiro

Bug Description

The CSRF token for the admindb page contains an encrypted version of the list admin password which could potentially be cracked by a moderator via an off-line brute force attack.

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Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
information type: Private Security → Public Security
Changed in mailman:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Mark Sapiro (msapiro) wrote :

The patch originally attached to this report created another issue - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1950833

This is a corrected patch

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