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CVE-2012-2691

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2691 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in MantisBT versions prior to 1.2.11. Specifically, the mc_issue_note_update function in the SOAP API fails to adequately check user privileges, allowing remote attackers with bug reporting access to modify any bugnote via a crafted SOAP request. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantisbt:mantisbt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.18.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantisbt:mantisbt:0.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantisbt:mantisbt:0.19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantisbt:mantisbt:0.19.0:a1:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mantisbt:mantisbt:0.19.0:a2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0383 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092926.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093063.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093064.html
secunia.com / advisories/49414
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51199
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201211-01.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/76180
github.com / mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/175d973105fe9f03a37ced537b742611631067e0
ExploitPatch
github.com / mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/edc8142bb8ac0ac0df1a3824d78c15f4015d959e
ExploitPatch
mantisbt.org / bugs/changelog_page.php
mantisbt.org / bugs/view.php
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/06/09/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/06/11/6
securityfocus.com / bid/53907
securityfocus.com / bid/56467