Mantis: XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200509-16 / Mantis
Release Date	September 24, 2005
Latest Revision	September 24, 2005: 01
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

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

Related bugreports: #103308

Synopsis

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

2. Impact Information

Background

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

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.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mantis users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

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

4. References

Updated September 24, 2005

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