GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8 MantisBT Has Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-33052
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- mantisbt/mantisbt
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-639
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-11
Affected packages
• Packagist mantisbt/mantisbt: >= 2.28.0, < 2.28.2 → fixed in 2.28.2
Description
MantisBT allows a low-privileged authenticated user having *add_profile_threshold* to create a global profile despite not having *manage_global_profile_threshold*, by tampering with the user_id parameter in a valid profile creation request.
Impact
Authentication bypass
Patches
• 3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e
Workarounds
None
Credits
Thanks to Vishal Shukla for discovering and responsibly reporting the issues.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-33052 Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key weakness
References
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33052 advisory
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e web
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt package
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/releases/tag/release-2.28.2 web
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974 web