Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in MantisBT - CVE-2012-2691
Published: June 17, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43977
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2691
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The mc_issue_note_update function in the SOAP API in MantisBT before 1.2.11 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote attackers with bug reporting privileges to edit arbitrary bugnotes via a SOAP request.
Affected software
MantisBT
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2691
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- 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/49414
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51199
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201211-01.xml
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=148
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=14340
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/09/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/11/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53907
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56467
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76180
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/175d973105fe9f03a37ced537b742611631067e0
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/edc8142bb8ac0ac0df1a3824d78c15f4015d959e