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If an\nauthenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while\nlogged into Mailman, a remote attacker could perform administrative\nactions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7123)\n\nNishant Agarwala discovered that the Mailman user options page did not\nprotect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an\nauthenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while\nlogged into Mailman, a remote attacker could modify user options.\n(CVE-2016-6893)\n","status":"published","published":"2016-11-01T17:19:04Z","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:02Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:10.303275Z"}]}}