CVE-2012-1121

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

MantisBT before 1.2.9 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users with manager privileges to (1) modify or (2) delete global categories.

Affected products

mantisbt: through 1.2.8; 0.18.0, 0.19.0, 0.19.0-a1, 0.19.0-a2, 0.19.0-rc1, 0.19.1 (+52)

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/48258
http://secunia.com/advisories/51199
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201211-01.xml
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=140
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=13561
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52313
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/9443258724e84cb388aa1865b775beaecd80596d
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092926.html

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