Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/upgrade_unattended.php in MantisBT before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the db_type parameter, related to an unsafe call by MantisBT to a function in the ADOdb Library for PHP.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201211-01 (MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MantisBT. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to conduct       directory traversal attacks, disclose the contents of local files, inject       arbitrary web scripts, obtain sensitive information, bypass       authentication and intended access restrictions, or manipulate bugs and       attachments.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update fixes multiple security issues recently found in Mantis.

For more details about the issues in upstream bugs :

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=12607

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=12309

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The MantisBT install on the remote host fails to sanitize user input to the 'db_type' parameter of the 'admin/upgrade_unattended.php' script before using it to include PHP code.

Regardless of PHP's 'register_globals' and 'magic_quotes_gpc' settings, an unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to view arbitrary files or possibly execute arbitrary PHP code on the remote host, subject to the privileges of the web server user id.

Although Nessus has not checked for it, the installed version is also likely to be affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability involving the same parameter / script combination.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
62867	GLSA-201211-01 : MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
51403	Fedora 14 : mantis-1.1.8-5.fc14 (2010-19078)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
51402	Fedora 13 : mantis-1.1.8-5.fc13 (2010-19070)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
51359	MantisBT 'db_type' Parameter Local File Inclusion	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-4350

critical

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

medium

medium