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FKIE_CVE-2014-8988

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-11-24 15:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:17

Severity

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/693
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/62101
cve@mitre.org	http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120
cve@mitre.org	http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17742
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/6
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71104
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98731
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/5f0b150b	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/693
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/62101
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17742
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71104
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98731
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/5f0b150b	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mantisbt	mantisbt	1.2.17

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CVE-2014-8988 (GCVE-0-2014-8988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-24 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:33

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

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https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/5f0b150b	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17742	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/62101	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71104	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/693	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

Date Public

2014-11-15 00:00

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