The following flaw was reported in MantisBT: "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." The original post notes this script should be deleted in Production environments. Refer to https://mantisbt.org/docs/master-1.2.x/en/administration_guide/admin.install.postcommon.html for details. This issue affects versions less than and equal to 1.1.0a3, and less than and equal to 1.2.17. It is due to be fixed in 1.2.18. Upstream patch: http://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/0826cef8 Reference: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/863
Created mantis tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1169163] Affects: epel-5 [bug 1169164]
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.
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.
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.
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