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GHSA-mcqj-7p29-9528
No affected components available
Impact
Knowing a user's email address and username, an unauthenticated attacker can hijack the user's account by poisoning the link in the password reset notification message.
Patches
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7055731d09ff12b2781410a372f790172e279744
Workarounds
Define $g_path as appropriate in config_inc.php.
References
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=19381
Credits
Thanks to the following security researchers for responsibly reporting and helping resolve this vulnerability.
- Pier-Luc Maltais (https://twitter.com/plmaltais)
- Hlib Yavorskyi (https://github.com/Kerkroups)
- Jingshao Chen (https://github.com/shaozi)
- Brandon Roldan
- nhchoudhary
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. The attacker needs the user to perform some action, like clicking a link. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a low impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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