Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4521

Title: Mantis CRLF injection in login parameters

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4521.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 28, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.17%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4521: CRLF injection vulnerability in Mantis 1.0.0rc3 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via (1) the return parameter in login_cookie_test.php and (2) ref parameter in login_select_proj_page.php.

Impacted Vendors

mantis 1

matisbt 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/18181/ http://secunia.com/advisories/18221 http://secunia.com/advisories/18481 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=377932&group_id=14963 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=377934&group_id=14963 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-944 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-12.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16046/ http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2005-11-002.txt http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3064 http://secunia.com/advisories/18181/ http://secunia.com/advisories/18221 http://secunia.com/advisories/18481 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=377932&group_id=14963 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=377934&group_id=14963 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-944 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-12.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16046/ http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2005-11-002.txt http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3064

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4521 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 28, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.