Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in file_download.php in MantisBT before 2.24.3. Users without access to view private issue notes are able to download the (supposedly private) attachments linked to these notes by accessing the corresponding file download URL directly.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25781
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in file_download.php in MantisBT before 2.24.3. Users without access to view private issue notes are able to download the (supposedly private) attachments linked to these notes by accessing the corresponding file download URL directly.
osv:CVE-2020-25781
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384012,
"published_at": "2020-09-30T21:15:13.23+00:00"
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