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CVE-2012-0465

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2012-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Bugzilla: 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2 (+20)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639

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