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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
Mantis is a web-based bugtracking system. It is written in the PHP
scripting language and requires the MySQL database and a webserver.
Product link:
http://www.mantisbt.org/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Mantis, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
Input passed to the "t_core_path" parameter in
"bug_sponsorship_list_view_inc.php" isn't properly verified, before
it used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary
files from external and local resources.
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8) About Secunia
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advisories are gathered in a publicly available database at the
Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/
Secunia offers services to our customers enabling them to receive all
relevant vulnerability information to their specific system
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