Vulnerability CVE-2012-0465


Published: 2012-04-27   Modified: 2012-04-28

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Bugzilla Unauthorized Access / Cross Site Scripting
Multiple
20.04.2012

Type:

CWE-264

(Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Mozilla -> Bugzilla 

 References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html

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