CVE-2012-2691

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 products

mantisbt: through 1.2.10; 0.18.0, 0.19.0, 0.19.0-a1, 0.19.0-a2, 0.19.0-rc1, 0.19.1 (+53)

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

Get alerted when CVE-2012-2691 or the next vulnerability affects your stack