How severe is CVE-2017-12419?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 4.9 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-12419?

This is classified as CWE-200, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-12419 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 4.9

Vulnerability Description

If, after successful installation of MantisBT through 2.5.2 on MySQL/MariaDB, the administrator does not remove the 'admin' directory (as recommended in the "Post-installation and upgrade tasks" section of the MantisBT Admin Guide), and the MySQL client has a local_infile setting enabled (in php.ini mysqli.allow_local_infile, or the MySQL client config file, depending on the PHP setup), an attacker may take advantage of MySQL's "connect file read" feature to remotely access files on the MantisBT server.

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