Path traversal in MantisBT - CVE-2010-4350
Published: January 3, 2011 / Updated: January 3, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45493
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4350
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in admin/upgrade_unattended.php in MantisBT before 1.2.4. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a . (dot dot) in the db_type parameter, related to an unsafe call by MantisBT to a function in the ADOdb Library for PHP.
Affected software
MantisBT
How to mitigate CVE-2010-4350
Install update from vendor's website.
MantisBT - update to 1.2.4
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052721.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052730.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/15/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42772
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51199
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201211-01.xml
- http://www.mantisbt.org/blog/?p=123
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=112
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=12607
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0002
- http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2010-4984.php
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663230