CVE-2012-4189

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field value that is not properly handled during construction of a tabular report, as demonstrated by the Version field.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2, 4.2-rc1 (+8)

References

http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790296
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790296

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