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Bug 203084 - www-apps/mambo security status
Summary: www-apps/mambo security status
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/...
Whiteboard: ~4 [masked]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 211166
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Reported: 2007-12-22 21:31 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2010-03-07 12:59 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-22 21:31:40 UTC
CVE-2007-6455 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-6455):
  Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in index.php in Mambo
  4.6.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the
  (1) Itemid parameter in a com_frontpage option and the (2) option parameter.
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-22 21:32:48 UTC
Web-apps, please advise.
Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-05 00:29:56 UTC
4.6.3 does not fix this.
Comment 3 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-08 07:17:50 UTC
Are you certain that 4.6.3 is still vulnerable to this?

I tried to reproduce the problem but was unable to confirm the XSS with 4.6.3. Looking at the code gave me the impression that both "option" and "Itemid" are properly sanitized in 4.6.3.

This was just a quick glimpse so I'm not 100% certain but I thought I ask for a reference that identifies this problem as being unsolved before going deeper.
Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-08 23:29:27 UTC
I did not independently research this, but Secunia updated their advisory avialable here:
  http://secunia.com/advisories/28133

ChangeLog states:
2007-12-27: Updated "Description" section to include version 4.6.3 as vulnerable.

I'll contact them.
Comment 5 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-09 05:35:19 UTC
Okay, then I'm probably wrong and it still exists. I only checked the URLs given in http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485257/100/0/threaded but I used Firefox for that. I did not see the Secunia information.

Can somebody else check this with Internet Explorer 6?
Comment 6 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-15 15:13:04 UTC
Secunia confirmed the vulnerabilities still exist when using Konqueror for example. I don't have a Mambo installation ready to test.
Comment 7 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-23 14:46:26 UTC
this may be subject to security mask too, CVE history is just too long to not mask this ... bug 211166
Comment 8 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-24 13:23:30 UTC
It's up to the web-apps wether to mask this one.
Comment 9 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-24 20:24:50 UTC
this is basically the same codebase as joomla, so the same procedure applies .. masked
Comment 10 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-20 16:31:21 UTC
"more issues with mambo" : http://secunia.com/advisories/30685/
this is CVE-2008-2905, no fix available atm.
Comment 11 Lynne Pope 2008-08-24 16:27:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> this is basically the same codebase as joomla, so the same procedure applies ..
> masked
> 
Mambo 4.6.x is quite different to Joomla 1.0.x and has had very few vulnerabilities. 

CVE-2007-6455 was not able to be reproduced in Mambo 4.6.3 however further hardening was done with Mambo 4.6.4. 

CVE-2008-2905 was reported by Mambo when it was discovered and Mambo 4.6.5 released almost immediately. 

Currently, there are multiple new reports of vulnerabilities in Mambo 4.6.2 possibly due to people not reading the news announcements on sourceforge. New releases of Mambo are made on the Mambo forge at http://mambo-code.org


Comment 12 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-01-11 08:27:42 UTC
There have been no updates to Mambo in more than two years.  Maybe we should treeclean it.
Comment 13 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2010-03-06 16:24:58 UTC
PLEASE!
Comment 14 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-03-07 12:59:45 UTC
removed