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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 19:31:37 +0100
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Roland Becker <roland@...ol.de>,
Robert Munteanu <robert.munteanu@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: MantisBT 1.2.12 only summary.php
category/project names XSS vulnerability
Hi Kurt
Noticed that this ruequest did not got a CVE. Can one be assigned?
Note that this only seems to affect exactly one version 1.2.12:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:21:11AM +1100, David Hicks wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Roland Becker (MantisBT Developer) discovered[1] a XSS vulnerability
> introduced in MantisBT 1.2.12 with the display of category/project names
> on the summary.php page. Versions of MantisBT other than 1.2.12 are not
> affected by this vulnerability.
>
> A malicious MantisBT user holding privileged manager/administrator
> permissions could create a category or project name that contains
> JavaScript code. Any user visiting summary.php from that point on may
> then be exposed to having the malicious JavaScript execute within their
> browser environment.
>
> The severity of this issue is limited by the need to hold privileged
> manager/administrator permissions in order to modify category and
> project names. However -- there are many use cases where MantisBT
> installations can have hundreds of sub-projects, each managed by
> different people/parties that can not or should not be fully trusted.
>
> Refer to previous commits 3ca8a164[2] and 6ec3f693[3] to trace back the
> origin of this vulnerability.
>
> References:
> [1] http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=15384
> [2]
> https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3ca8a164641951aba2a459364e656ca0996f8a2b
> [3]
> https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/6ec3f693d6d212d6bba788681a206c14df43569f
>
> Discussion on the MantisBT Developer Mailing List has indicated that a
> release of MantisBT 1.2.13 (resolving both this vulnerability and
> CVE-2013-0197 which was announced on this list ~12 hours ago) will not
> occur until early next week. As such, a patch is attached for
> distributions packaging MantisBT 1.2.12. It is recommended this patch be
> applied as soon as possible.
>
> Can a CVE ID please be assigned to this issue?
Regards,
Salvatore
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