SB2012040501 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby Redmine
Published: April 5, 2012 Updated: October 11, 2021
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Credentials management (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2054)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
Redmine before 1.3.2 does not properly restrict the use of a hash to provide values for a model's attributes, which allows remote attackers to set attributes in the (1) Comment, (2) Document, (3) IssueCategory, (4) MembersController, (5) Message, (6) News, (7) TimeEntry, (8) Version, (9) Wiki, (10) UserPreference, or (11) Board model via a modified URL, related to a "mass assignment" vulnerability, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0327.
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0327)
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in Redmine before 1.3.2. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.