CVE-2015-8508

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
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: yes
Published: 2016-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.11, and 4.5.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.2, when a local dot configuration is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted bug summary.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10 (+141)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135048/Bugzilla-Cross-Site-Scripting-Information-Leak.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/131
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79660
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034556
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221518
https://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.2.15/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135048/Bugzilla-Cross-Site-Scripting-Information-Leak.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/131
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79660
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034556
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221518
https://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.2.15/

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