National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0465
Original release date:04/27/2012
Last revised:08/14/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Bugzilla 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.6, and 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.1, when the inbound_proxies option is enabled, does not properly validate the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the lockout policy via a series of authentication requests with (1) different IP address strings in this header or (2) a long string in this header.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-6282
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-6396
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-6368
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20120418 Security advisory for Bugzilla 4.2.1, 4.0.6 and 3.6.9
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)