CVE-2014-1517

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The login form in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, 4.x before 4.4.3, and 4.5.x before 4.5.3 does not properly handle a correctly authenticated but unintended login attempt, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by arranging for a victim to login to the attacker's account and then submit a vulnerability report, related to a "login CSRF" issue.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9 (+196)

References

http://git.mozilla.org/?p=bugzilla/bugzilla.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0e390970ba51b14a5dc780be7c6f0d6d7baa67e3
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/132281.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/132309.html
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.11/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030128
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713926
http://git.mozilla.org/?p=bugzilla/bugzilla.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0e390970ba51b14a5dc780be7c6f0d6d7baa67e3
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/132281.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/132309.html
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.11/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030128
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713926

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