CVE-2012-5522: Mantisbt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MantisBT before 1.2.12 does not use an expected default value during decisions about whether a user may modify the status of a bug, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and make status changes by leveraging a blank value for a per-status setting.

Affected products

• Mantisbt Mantisbt: up to and including 1.2.11; version 0.18.0 only; version 0.19.0 only; version 0.19.1 only; version 0.19.2 only; version 0.19.3 only; …

Published 2012-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.