Bug 1171713 (CVE-2014-9279)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9279 mantis: database credentials disclosure in MantisBT's unattended upgrade script
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	giallu, guillaume, jrusnack
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	MantisBT 1.2.18	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:37:05 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1171714, 1171715
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-12-08 13:07:25 UTC

It was reported [1] that the unattended upgrade script retrieved DB connection settings from POST parameters, allowing an attacker to get the script to connect to their host with the current DB config credentials.

As per installation instructions [2], the admin/ directory (which contains the vulnerable script) should be deleted in a Production instance.

Upstream patch is available at [3] as well as on the upstream bugtracker [4].

[1]: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/863
[2]: https://mantisbt.org/docs/master-1.2.x/en/administration_guide/admin.install.postcommon.html
[3]: http://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/0826cef8
[4]: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17877

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-12-08 13:08:57 UTC

Created mantis tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1171714]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1171715]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:34:33 UTC

mantis-1.2.18-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:47:47 UTC

mantis-1.2.18-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:51:22 UTC

mantis-1.2.18-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:37:05 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.