[Mailman-Users] someone unsubscribed someone else by web w/o password

Andreas Schamanek schamanek at gmx.net
Sat May 11 14:07:36 CEST 2002


Hi folks,

  I am not yet absolutely sure about what has happened exactly. But
at the moment all looks like somebody was able to unsubscribe a list's
member without knowing this member's password. My web logs show access

   POST /mailman/subscribe/mylist-l
   POST /mailman/handle_opts/mylist-l/someone at gmx.net

and immediately afterwards Mailman unsubscribed someone at gmx.net.
Because I know the person behind someone at gmx.net personally, I have to
consider this whole thing as a fraud. I have also checked the password
of someone at gmx.net, that was "uxgovo" which I consider unguessable :/

Have I missed a security fix? I am using MM 2.0.6, Python 2.0 and
Apache 1.3.19. I know that 2.0.6 is too old but I did not know that it
was vulnerable to such a nasty thing. Is it?

TIA,

-- Andreas 







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