CVE-2012-5523

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: none known
Published: 2012-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

core/email_api.php in MantisBT before 1.2.12 does not properly manage the sending of e-mail notifications about restricted bugs, which might allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by adding a note to a bug before losing permission to view that bug.

Affected products

mantisbt: through 1.2.11; 0.18.0, 0.19.0, 0.19.0-a1, 0.19.0-a2, 0.19.0-rc1, 0.19.1 (+55)

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://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/14/1
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=150
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=14704
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56520
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80070
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://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/14/1

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