Trac: Cross-site request forgery

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200612-14 / trac
Release Date	December 12, 2006
Latest Revision	December 12, 2006: 01
Impact	low
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
www-apps/trac	< 0.10.1	>= 0.10.1	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #154574

Synopsis

Trac allows remote attackers to execute unauthorized actions as other users.

2. Impact Information

Background

Trac is a wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects.

Description

Trac allows users to perform certain tasks via HTTP requests without performing correct validation on those requests.

Impact

An attacker could entice an authenticated user to browse to a specially crafted URL, allowing the attacker to execute actions in the Trac instance as if they were the user.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Trac users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/trac-0.10.1"

4. References

Updated December 12, 2006

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