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CVE-2012-5523
core/email_api.php in MantisBT before 1.2.12 does not properly manage the sending of e-mail notifications about restricted bugs, which…
Medium5.5EPSS 1.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
core/email_api.php in MantisBT before 1.2.12 does not properly manage the sending of e-mail notifications about restricted bugs, which might allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by adding a note to a bug before losing permission to view that bug.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- FEDORA-2012-18299 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 56520 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- mantisbt-cloned-info-disc(80070) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121114 Re: CVE request: mantis before 1.2.12 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-18294 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=150 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-18273 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=14704 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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