Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5878 - Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Trac

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
edgewall-software
nessus

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Edgewall Trac 0.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as other users via unknown vectors. This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: Edgewall Software, Trac, 0.10.1

Nessus

NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200612-14.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200612-14 (Trac: Cross-site request forgery) Trac allows users to perform certain tasks via HTTP requests without performing correct validation on those requests. Impact : An attacker could entice an authenticated user to browse to a specially crafted URL, allowing the attacker to execute actions in the Trac instance as if they were the user. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id23866
published2006-12-14
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/23866
titleGLSA-200612-14 : Trac: Cross-site request forgery
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-14.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(23866);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:43");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-5878");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200612-14");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-200612-14 : Trac: Cross-site request forgery");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200612-14
(Trac: Cross-site request forgery)

    Trac allows users to perform certain tasks via HTTP requests without
    performing correct validation on those requests.
  
Impact :

    An attacker could entice an authenticated user to browse to a specially
    crafted URL, allowing the attacker to execute actions in the Trac
    instance as if they were the user.
  
Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200612-14"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All Trac users should upgrade to the latest version:
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/trac-0.10.1'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:trac");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/12/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/12/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/11/01");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"www-apps/trac", unaffected:make_list("ge 0.10.1"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 0.10.1"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Trac");
}