Title: Mantis Weak Configuration File Permission Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Mantis is a web-based bug tracking system. It is written in PHP and supported by a MySQL database.
A vulnerability has been reported for Mantis that may allow an attacker to obtain access to the Mantis database.
The vulnerability exists due to weak permissions on the Mantis configuration file. Specifically, the configuration file, which contains the password for the Mantis database, has world-readable permissions.
An attacker can exploit this to obtain unprivileged access to the Mantis database.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Mantis Mantis 0.17.1
References:
- Mantis: Mantis Homepage
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