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CVE-2008-4689

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4689 describes a session hijacking vulnerability in Mantis versions prior to 1.1.3, where the session cookie is not properly unset upon logout. This flaw allows remote attackers to more easily hijack user sessions. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, nor has it garnered significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:0.19.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0249 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4689Moderate

mantis: logout without unsetting session cookie

Sep 26, 2008

References

secunia.com / advisories/32975
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46084
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-07.xml
mantisbt.org / bugs/changelog_page.php
mantisbt.org / bugs/file_download.php
mantisbt.org / bugs/view.php
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/20/1