http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3102
http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-3102-mantis.html
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9524
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9533
http://enablesecurity.com/2008/08/11/surf-jack-https-will-not-save-you/
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html#Perry
When configuring a web application to use only ssl (e. g. by forwarding all http-requests to https), a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the session is impossible.
Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the secure flag. Else the cookie will be transferred through http if the victim's browser does a single http-request on the same domain.
The mantis bugtracker does not set that flag. The mantis team has fixed this issue in 1.1.3.
2008-08-12: Vendor contacted
2008-08-13 Vendor committed fix to trunk
2008-09-23 Published advisory
2008-10-14 Vendor releases 1.1.3
This vulnerability was discovered by Hanno Boeck of schokokeks.org webhosting. It's licensed under the creative commons attribution license.
Hanno Boeck, http://www.hboeck.de