MantisBT before 1.2.9 does not properly check permissions, which allows remote authenticated users with manager privileges to (1) modify or (2) delete global categories.

New upstream release, fixes several security bugs

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201211-01 (MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MantisBT. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to conduct       directory traversal attacks, disclose the contents of local files, inject       arbitrary web scripts, obtain sensitive information, bypass       authentication and intended access restrictions, or manipulate bugs and       attachments.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
63039	Fedora 16 : mantis-1.2.12-1.fc16 (2012-18299)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
63038	Fedora 17 : mantis-1.2.12-1.fc17 (2012-18294)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
63036	Fedora 18 : mantis-1.2.12-1.fc18 (2012-18273)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
62867	GLSA-201211-01 : MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2012-1121

medium

Tenable Plugins

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high

high

high