CVE-2026-34390MantisBT: Privilege Escalation from Manager to Administrator
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.43%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 63% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Versions 2.28.1 and prior have a Privilege Escalation vulnerability where insufficient access control checks in ProjectUsersAddCommand (manage_proj_user_add.php) allow users having manage_project_threshold access level (manager by default) to grant project-level administrator access to any user (including themselves) in any Project they have manager rights in. The normal project-user add form restricts the selectable access levels to the actor's own project role or below. However, the backend handler still accepts a forged higher access_level value and writes it. The consequences of the privilege escalation are slight, as having administrator access at Project level is effectively not very different from being manager, and it does not actually give administrator privileges on the whole MantisBT instance. In particular, it does not let the upgraded user delete the Project or grant them any access to global administrative functions such as managing Users, Projects, Plugins, Custom Fields, etc. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36995 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCexploit
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37002 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCexploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmantisbt/mantisbtGHSA-frf7-jhp9-jxm6 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-frf7-jhp9-jxm6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/69e0180f180ed5acf48a8d281a73683a7bf32461 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36995 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCexploit
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37002 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCexploit
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-30994 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-frf7-jhp9-jxm6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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