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CVE-2017-12419

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

If, after successful installation of MantisBT through 2.5.2 on MySQL/MariaDB, the administrator does not remove the 'admin' directory (as recommended in the "Post-installation and upgrade tasks" section of the MantisBT Admin Guide), and the MySQL client has a local_infile setting enabled (in php.ini mysqli.allow_local_infile, or the MySQL client config file, depending on the PHP setup), an attacker may take advantage of MySQL's "connect file read" feature to remotely access files on the MantisBT server.

Affected products

• mantisbt: 2.5.2

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/04/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100142
• https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=23173
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/04/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100142
• https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=23173

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