CVE-2002-1196

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

editproducts.cgi in Bugzilla 2.14.x before 2.14.4, and 2.16.x before 2.16.1, when the "usebuggroups" feature is enabled and more than 47 groups are specified, does not properly calculate bit values for large numbers, which grants extra permissions to users via known features of Perl math that set multiple bits.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.14, 2.14.1, 2.14.2, 2.14.3, 2.16

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167485#c12
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103349804226566&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-173
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10233.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5843
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167485#c12
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103349804226566&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-173
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10233.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5843

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