Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in views/list.py in GNU Mailman Postorius before 1.3.5. An attacker (logged into any account) can send a crafted POST request to unsubscribe any user from a mailing list, also revealing whether that address was subscribed in the first place.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-40347
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in views/list.py in GNU Mailman Postorius before 1.3.5. An attacker (logged into any account) can send a crafted POST request to unsubscribe any user from a mailing list, also revealing whether that address was subscribed in the first place.
osv:CVE-2021-40347
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:58.007090669Z",
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"references": [
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"https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/tags",
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"https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/commit/3d880c56b58bc26b32eac0799407d74b64b7474b",
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