Debian DLA-512-1 : mantis security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 91576

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an XSS vulnerability in custom field management in mantis, a web-based bug tracking system.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in mantis version 1.2.18-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mantis packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected mantis package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/06/msg00013.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/mantis

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 91576

File Name: debian_DLA-512.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mantis, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5364