SCA: security update for mantisbt/mantisbt (GHSA-4v8w-gg5j-ph37)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435912

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Due to incorrect use of loose (==) instead
of strict (===) comparison in the authentication code in versions 2.27.1 and below.PHP type juggling will
cause certain MD5 hashes matching scientific notation to be interpreted as numbers. Instances using the
MD5 login method allow an attacker who knows the victim's username and has access to an account with a
password hash that evaluates to zero to log in without knowing the victim's actual password, by using any
other password with a hash that also evaluates to zero This issue is fixed in version 2.27.2.
(CVE-2025-47776)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4v8w-gg5j-ph37

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435912

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 11/3/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47776

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 8.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47776