GLSA 200509-16: Mantis: XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Mantis: XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities
Date:	09/24/2005
Bugs:	#103308
ID:	200509-16

Synopsis

Mantis is affected by an SQL injection and several cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Background

Mantis is a web-based bugtracking system written in PHP.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/mantisbt	< 0.19.2	>= 0.19.2	All supported architectures

Description

Mantis fails to properly sanitize untrusted input before using it. This leads to an SQL injection and several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Impact

An attacker could possibly use the SQL injection vulnerability to access or modify information from the Mantis database. Furthermore the cross-site scripting issues give an attacker the ability to inject and execute malicious script code or to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, potentially compromising the victim's browser.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mantis users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/mantisbt-0.19.2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200509-16.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.