Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in MantisBT - CVE-2012-1120
Published: June 29, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43929
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1120
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: mantisbt.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
MantisBT
MantisBT
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to manipulate or delete data.
The SOAP API in MantisBT before 1.2.9 does not properly enforce the bugnote_allow_user_edit_delete and delete_bug_threshold permissions, which allows remote authenticated users with read and write SOAP API privileges to delete arbitrary bug reports and bug notes.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1120
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092926.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093063.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093064.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48258
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49572
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51199
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201211-01.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2500
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=140
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=13656
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52313
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/df7782a65e96aa1c9639a7625a658102134c7fe0