CVE-2006-0840

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

manage_user_page.php in Mantis 1.00rc4 and earlier does not properly handle a sort parameter containing a ' (quote) character, which allows remote attackers to trigger a SQL error that may be repeatedly reported to a user who makes subsequent web accesses with the MANTIS_MANAGE_COOKIE cookie. NOTE: this issue might be the same as vector 2 in CVE-2005-4519.

Affected products

mantis: through 1.0.0_rc4; 0.9, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.10, 0.10.0, 0.10.1 (+54)

References

http://morph3us.org/advisories/20060214-mantis-100rc4.txt
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14963&package_id=12175&release_id=386059
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=386059&group_id=14963
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425046/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16657
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24726
http://morph3us.org/advisories/20060214-mantis-100rc4.txt
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14963&package_id=12175&release_id=386059
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=386059&group_id=14963
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425046/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16657
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24726

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