CVE-2009-3166

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

token.cgi in Bugzilla 3.4rc1 through 3.4.1 places a password in a URL at the beginning of a login session that occurs immediately after a password reset, which allows context-dependent attackers to discover passwords by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 3.4, 3.4-rc1, 3.4.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36718
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.0.8/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36372
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022902
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508189
http://secunia.com/advisories/36718
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.0.8/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36372
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022902
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508189

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