MantisBT Has Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation
MantisBT allows a low-privileged authenticated user having *add_profile_threshold* to create a global profile despite not having *manage_global_profile_threshold*, by tampering with the user_id parameter in a valid profile creation request. ### Impact Authentication bypass ### Patches - 3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e ### Workarounds None ### Credits Thanks to Vishal Shukla for discovering and responsibly reporting the issues.
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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-33052US | — | — | ||
Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Versions 2.28.0 and 2.28.1 allow a low-privileged authenticated user assigned the "add_profile_threshold" permission… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbtPACKAGE
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75eWEB
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/releases/tag/release-2.28.2WEB
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8WEB
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33052ADVISORY
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