CVE-2006-3695 Trac reStructuredText breach of privacy and denial of service vulnerability

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Remote attackers can read arbitrary files, execute XSS, or cause DoS in Trac due to unsafe reStructuredText command handling.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2006-3695?

CVE-2006-3695 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 19 Jul 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Trac before 0.9.6 does not disable the "raw" or "include" commands when providing untrusted users with restructured text (reStructuredText) functionality from docutils, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2006-3458.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3695?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including trac. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
trac PyPIAll versions0.9.6
trac PyPIAll versions0.9.6
trac PyPIAll versions0.9.6

Products include Edgewall Software Trac.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3695?

Upgrade trac to 0.9.6 or later.

Is CVE-2006-3695 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3695 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3695, DSA-1152, GHSA-r524-c2gf-5chr, PYSEC-2006-2.

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