CVE-2014-8630

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

Bugzilla before 4.0.16, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.12, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.0rc1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging the editcomponents privilege and triggering crafted input to a two-argument Perl open call, as demonstrated by shell metacharacters in a product name.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
Mozilla Bugzilla: through 4.0.16; 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2, 4.2-rc1 (+32)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0048.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149921.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149925.html
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.15/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:030
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1079065
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-11
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0048.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149921.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149925.html
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.15/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:030

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