CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9117
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
MantisBT before 1.2.18 uses the public_key parameter value as the key to the CAPTCHA answer, which allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism by leveraging knowledge of a CAPTCHA answer for a public_key parameter value, as demonstrated by E4652 for the public_key value 0.
Affected configurations
• mantisbt mantisbt (<= 1.2.17)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62101 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/26/19 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71321 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99004 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7bb78e45 github.com
- https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17811 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62101 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/26/19 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71321 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99004 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7bb78e45 github.com
- https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17811 Vendor Advisory