CVE-2012-1968

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 and 4.3.x before 4.3.2 uses bug-editor privileges instead of bugmail-recipient privileges during construction of HTML bugmail documents, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive description information by reading the tooltip portions of an HTML e-mail message.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2, 4.2-rc1 (+4)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/50040
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.9/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777398
http://secunia.com/advisories/50040
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.9/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777398

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