# CVE-2013-1883: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Mantis Bug Tracker by exploiting a specific filter configuration, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 May 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-45p2-fw7m-wc4p

## What is CVE-2013-1883?

CVE-2013-1883 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mantisbt Mantisbt, published on 27 May 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Mantis Bug Tracker (aka MantisBT) 1.2.12 before 1.2.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a filter using a criteria, text search, and the "any condition" match type.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1883?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mantisbt Mantisbt.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-1883?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1883 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2013-1883 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Mantisbt Mantisbt

- [CVE-2019-15074](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15074/): MantisBT allows cross-site scripting (XSS) via crafted filename (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2026-30849](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-30849/): MantisBT SOAP API has an authentication bypass vulnerability on MySQL (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-47776](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-47776/): MantisBT: Authentication bypass for some passwords due to PHP type juggling (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-7615](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7615/): MantisBT allows arbitrary password reset (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-33517](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33517/): MantisBT Vulnerable to Stored HTML Injection in Tag Delete Confirmation (high 8.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-1883 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-1883 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mantisbt Mantisbt, published on 27 May 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Mantisbt Mantisbt. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1883/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1883/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1883
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1883
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-1883

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1883/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.