CVE-2007-4539

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: yes
Published: 2007-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The WebService (XML-RPC) interface in Bugzilla 2.23.3 through 3.0.0 does not enforce permissions for the time-tracking fields of bugs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via certain XML-RPC requests, as demonstrated by the (1) Deadline and (2) Estimated Time fields.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9, 2.23.3, 2.23.4 (+1)

References

http://osvdb.org/37202
http://secunia.com/advisories/26584
http://secunia.com/advisories/26971
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-18.xml
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.20.4/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477630/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25425
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018604
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2977
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382056
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36244
http://osvdb.org/37202

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