Debian DSA-161-1 : mantis - privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 14998

Synopsis

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

Description

A problem with user privileges has been discovered in the Mantis package, a PHP based bug tracking system. The Mantis system didn't check whether a user is permitted to view a bug, but displays it right away if the user entered a valid bug id.

Another bug in Mantis caused the 'View Bugs' page to list bugs from both public and private projects when no projects are accessible to the current user.

These problems have been fixed in version 0.17.1-2.5 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.17.5-2 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected, since it doesn't contain the mantis package.

Additional information :

- Mantis Advisory/2002-06
- Mantis Advisory/2002-07

Solution

Upgrade the mantis packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 14998

File Name: debian_DSA-161.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mantis

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1115, CVE-2002-1116

DSA: 161

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