CVE-2014-8988

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

MantisBT before 1.2.18 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the $g_download_attachments_threshold and $g_view_attachments_threshold restrictions and read attachments for private projects by leveraging access to a project that does not restrict access to attachments and a request to the download URL.

Affected products

mantisbt: 1.2.17

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/693
http://secunia.com/advisories/62101
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17742
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71104
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98731
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/5f0b150b
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/693
http://secunia.com/advisories/62101
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17742

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