GLSA 200601-12: Trac: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

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Severity:	low
Title:	Trac: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Date:	01/26/2006
Bugs:	#118302
ID:	200601-12

Synopsis

Trac is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack that could allow arbitrary JavaScript code execution.

Background

Trac is a minimalistic web-based project management, wiki and bug tracking system including a Subversion interface.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/trac	< 0.9.3	>= 0.9.3	All supported architectures

Description

Christophe Truc discovered that Trac fails to properly sanitize input passed in the URL.

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit this 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 Trac users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/trac-0.9.3"

Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use webapp-config to finalize the update.

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200601-12.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.