SNS Vulnerability

MantisBT Custom Fields Management Pages Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Fixed by 1.2.20 and 1.3.0

Description

(:A cross-site scripting vulnerability was reported in MantisBT.:A remote attacker could exploit it by enticing their victim into following a specially crafted link in order to execute arbitrary JavaScript or HTML code.::This vulnerability stems from an improper user input validation for the "return URL" GPC parameter of Custom fields management pages.::A proof of concept is available.)

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable OS:
GNU/Linux (Debian) - 7Vulnerable Software:
MantisBT (Mantis) - 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.10, 1.2.11, 1.2.12, ..., 1.2.8, 1.2.9, 1.3.0-beta.1, 1.3.0-beta.2, 1.3.0-rc1

Solution

Fixed mantis packages for Debian Wheezy 7 are available in LTS section.

CVE

CVE-2016-5364

References

- oss-sec : MantisBT: XSS in custom fields management
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/523
- DLA 512-1 : mantis security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/06/msg00013.html

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2016-06-11

Target Type

Client

Possible exploit

Remote