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MantisBT 2.25.0 Released

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MantisBT 2.25.0

This feature and maintenance release contains over 100 fixes and enhancements; among many other things, it improves PHP 8 compatibility, LDAP authentication and invalid plugins management. It also includes a schema change, so do not forget to upgrade the database as documented in the Admin Guide.

Please note that this will be the last release supporting PHP 5; starting with MantisBT 2.26.0, the minimum PHP version will be 7.2 – read the official announcement for details.

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MantisBT 2.24.5 Released

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MantisBT 2.24.5

Security and maintenance release, includes PHP 8.0 compatibility fixes.

  • 0027976: [security] User cookie string is not reset upon logout (dregad)
  • 0027800: [bugtracker] install.php throws SYSTEM WARNINGs (dregad)
  • 0027826: [bugtracker] ERROR_CATEGORY_NOT_FOUND_FOR_PROJECT thrown for Category ‘0’ (dregad)
  • 0027928: [custom fields] Unable to edit Issues having Date custom fields on PHP 8.0 (dregad)

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End of PHP 5 support

Since MantisBT 2.0.0, we officially support PHP 5.5.9 and later, aligned with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS “Trusty Tahr” release.

PHP 5.5 has reached end-of-life on July 21st, 2016 and PHP 5.6 support ended on December 31st, 2018 so the time has finally come for us to turn the page and leave 5.x behind, as maintaining compatibility is becoming increasingly difficult with more and more libraries and tools dropping support for it.

Consequently, the upcoming MantisBT 2.25.0 release will be the last one supporting PHP 5.

Starting with MantisBT 2.26.0, the minimum PHP version will be 7.0. This follows our strategy to align our requirements with Ubuntu LTS releases; as of this writing, the oldest one is 16.04 Xenial Xerus, which comes bundled with PHP 7.0.

Note that while PHP 7.0 is also end-of-life since January 10th, 2019, the Ubuntu team is committed to maintaining it for the lifetime of the 16.04 LTS release. Nevertheless, the MantisBT team recommends to run a fully supported PHP version, i.e. 7.3 or later.

Finally, please be advised that we will increase the minimum PHP version again in just a few months, as 16.04 LTS support ends in April 2021. The following LTS release, 18.04 Bionic Beaver, comes bundled with PHP 7.2.

EDIT (October 2023): Real life got in the way of things, and MantisBT 2.26.0 could not be released in 2021 as initially planned… It did not really make sense to set our minimum supported PHP version to 7.0 anymore, so we went straight to 7.2 instead.

MantisBT 2.24.4 Released

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MantisBT 2.24.4

Security and maintenance release, addressing 6 CVEs: an XSS issue, an SQL injection in the SOAP API and several information disclosure issues including a critical one allowing full access to private issues’ contents. All installations are strongly advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

This release also includes a few PHP 8.0 compatibility fixes, including a major one causing an access denied error for all users when updating issues.

  • 0020690: [bugtracker] inconsistent UI for view bugnote revision (dregad)
  • 0026794: [security] User Account – Takeover (dregad)
  • 0027363: [security] Fixed in version can be changed to a version that doesn’t exist (dregad)
  • 0027350: [security] When updating an issue, a Viewer user can be set as Reporter (dregad)
  • 0027357: [security] Attacker can leak private information via different functionality (dregad)
  • 0027728: [security] CVE-2020-29604: Full disclosure of private issue contents, including bugnotes and attachments (dregad)
  • 0027727: [security] CVE-2020-29605: Disclosure of private issue summary (dregad)
  • 0027726: [security] CVE-2020-29603: Disclosure of private project name (dregad)
  • 0027361: [security] Private category can be access/used by a non member of a private project (IDOR) (dregad)
  • 0027370: [security] CVE-2020-35849: Revisions allow viewing private bugnotes id and summary (dregad)
  • 0027495: [security] CVE-2020-28413: SQL injection in the parameter “access” on the mc_project_get_users function throught the API SOAP. (dregad) 0027704: [javascript] Javascript error in View Issues page (dregad)
  • 0027779: [security] CVE-2020-35571: XSS in helper_ensure_confirmed() calls (dregad)
  • 0027464: [printing] print_manage_user_sort_link Function Parameter Required after Optional (atrol)
  • 0027465: [code cleanup] Declaring a required parameter after an optional one is deprecated in PHP 8 (atrol)
  • 0027799: [bugtracker] Adapt Error handler to PHP 8 (dregad)
  • 0027806: [bugtracker] Impossible to edit issues with PHP8 (dregad)
  • 0027444: [security] Printing unsanitized user input in install.php (atrol)

Many thanks to randomdhiraj, ethicalhcop and d3vpoo1, for identifying and responsibly reporting these security issues.

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MantisBT 2.24.3 Released

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MantisBT 2.24.3

Security release for 2.24.x series. All installations are strongly advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

  • 0027039: [security] CVE-2020-25781: Access to private bug note attachments (dregad)
  • 0027268: [security] Admin can get issues assigned to users not allowed to handle them (dregad)
  • 0027275: [security] CVE-2020-25288: HTML Injection on bug_update_page.php (dregad)
  • 0027276: [security] Send reminder to viewer (dregad)
  • 0027283: [security] Admin can set viewer as a tag creator (dregad)
  • 0027284: [plug-ins] Priority can override to any positive integer (dregad)
  • 0027299: [code cleanup] Remove code duplication in File API (dregad)
  • 0027303: [code cleanup] When processing categories, it is not necessary to know the project id (dregad)
  • 0027304: [security] CVE-2020-25830: HTML Injection in bug_actiongroup_page.php (dregad)

Many thanks to d3vpoo1 who identified most of the security issues fixed in this release.

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