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Message-ID: <m550rn$ukk$1@ger.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:58:31 +0100
From: Damien Regad <dregad@...tisbt.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request: CAPTCHA bypass in MantisBT
Description:
There is a weakness on the CAPTCHA system that is used upon registration
of a new user that could allow a malicious individual to perform a
denial of service attack by indiscriminately creating new accounts, thus
generating a high load on the server.
Affected versions:
<= 1.2.17
Fixed in versions:
1.2.18 (not yet released)
Patch:
See Github [1]
Credit:
Issue was discovered by Alejo Popovici and fixed by Victor Boctor
(MantisBT Developer)
References:
Further details available in our issue tracker [2]
D. Regad
MantisBT Developer
http://www.mantisbt.org
[1] http://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7bb78e45
[2] https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17811
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