CVE-2005-4520

Exp

Unspecified "port injection" vulnerabilities in filters in Mantis 1.0.0rc3 and earlier have unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: due to a lack of relevant details in the vendor changelog, which is the source of this description, it is unclear whether this is a duplicate of another CVE.

Published: 2005-12-28 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2005-4520 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.06%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-4520

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-4520

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-16 2.01% 2.06% +0.05%
2 2026-06-15 1.06% 2.01% +0.95%
3 2025-03-30 1.06%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-4520

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-4520

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-4520

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2005-4520: 1 GLSA(s) (200512-12), 1 atom(s) (www-apps/mantisbt); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2005-4520
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-4520 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mantis), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-4520

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-4520

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mantis mantis 1.0.0_rc1 cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.0_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mantis mantis 1.0.0_rc2 cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.0_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mantis mantis 1.0.0_rc3 cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.0_rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mantis mantis 1.0.0a1 cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.0a1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mantis mantis 1.0.0a2 cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.0a2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mantis mantis 1.0.0a3 cpe:2.3:a:mantis:mantis:1.0.0a3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-4520

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