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GLSA-200601-12 : Trac: XSS vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20814

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200601-12 (Trac: XSS vulnerability)

 Christophe Truc discovered that Trac fails to properly sanitize input passed in the URL.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could exploit this to inject and execute malicious script code or to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, potentially compromising the victim's browser.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Trac users should upgrade to the latest available version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/trac-0.9.3' Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use webapp-config to finalize the update.

See Also

https://www.edgewall.org/trac/wiki/ChangeLog#a0.9.3

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200601-12

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20814

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200601-12.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 1/29/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:trac, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4305

GLSA: 200601-12