CVE-2012-5523

medium
Published 2012-11-16 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mantisbtmantisbt{"endIncluding":"1.2.11"}
mantisbtmantisbt0.18.0
mantisbtmantisbt0.19.0
mantisbtmantisbt0.19.1
mantisbtmantisbt0.19.2
mantisbtmantisbt0.19.3
mantisbtmantisbt0.19.4
mantisbtmantisbt0.19.5
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.0
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.1
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.2
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.3
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.4
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.5
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.6
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.7
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.8
mantisbtmantisbt1.0.9
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.0
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.1
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.2
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.3
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.4
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.5
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.6
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.7
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.8
mantisbtmantisbt1.1.9
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.0
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.1
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.2
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.3
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.4
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.5
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.6
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.7
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.8
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.9
mantisbtmantisbt1.2.10

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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