CVE-2001-1402

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Bugzilla before 2.14 does not properly escape untrusted parameters, which could allow remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via cross-site scripting (CSS) and possibly SQL injection attacks on (1) the product or output form variables for reports.cgi, (2) the voteon, bug_id, and user variables for showvotes.cgi, (3) an invalid email address in createaccount.cgi, (4) an invalid ID in showdependencytree.cgi, (5) invalid usernames and other fields in process_bug.cgi, and (6) error messages in buglist.cgi.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38854
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38855
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38859
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39536
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87701
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95235
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99912899900567
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-107.html
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38854
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38855
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38859
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39536

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