CVE-2014-9117
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
MantisBT before 1.2.18 uses the public_key parameter value as the key to the CAPTCHA answer, which allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism by leveraging knowledge of a CAPTCHA answer for a public_key parameter value, as demonstrated by E4652 for the public_key value 0.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mantisbt | mantisbt | {"endIncluding":"1.2.17"} | |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62101
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/26/19
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71321
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99004
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7bb78e45
- https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17811
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62101
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/26/19
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71321
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99004
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7bb78e45
- https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17811
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.