[Pkg-mailman-hackers] [Mailman-cabal] Potential security flaw in Postorius

Pierre-Elliott Bécue becue at crans.org
Wed Dec 27 09:02:56 UTC 2017


Le mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 00:05:09-0800, Abhilash a écrit :
> On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 11:37 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Dec 25, 2017, at 16:44, Abhilash Raj <raj.abhilash1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Currently, there are no use cases of a user's password in Core.
> > 
> > This is correct.  User passwords in Core are a vestige of an earlier
> > time.  They weren’t completely removed from the model because there are some
> > potential use cases we were keeping the door open for, and because it would
> > require a database migration.  So unless some third party code were using them
> > through the REST API or as an add-on rule/handler (unlikely - and we know
> > HyperKitty and Postorius don’t use this field), then I think the effective
> > security problems are nonexistent.
> 
> Thanks Barry!
> 
> So, I am going to tag and release Postorius 1.1.2 sometime tomorrow (27th Dec)
> and also push the changes to Gitlab.
> 
> How does that sound to everyone?

That sounds perfect. Thanks for your great work!

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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