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FreeBSD : mantis -- XSS vulnerability (2b63e964-eb04-11e6-9ac1-a4badb2f4699)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96992

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

wdollman reports :

The value of the view_type parameter on the view_all_bug_page.php page is not encoded before being displayed on the page.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=21611

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216662

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd848ebd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96992

File Name: freebsd_pkg_2b63e964eb0411e69ac1a4badb2f4699.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Published: 2/6/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mantis, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6837