Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-1572

Title: Mozilla Bugzilla

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-1572.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Oct 13, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-1572: The confirm_create_account function in the account-creation feature in token.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x through 4.0.x before 4.0.15, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.6, and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 does not specify a scalar context for the realname parameter, which allows remote attackers to create accounts with unverified e-mail addresses by sending three realname values with realname=login_name as the second, as demonstrated by selecting an e-mail address with a domain name for which group privileges are automatically granted.

Impacted Vendors

M
mozilla 1
J
jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0412.html http://blog.gerv.net/2014/10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-web-applications/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142524.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141309.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141321.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/07/20 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128578/Bugzilla-Account-Creation-XSS-Information-Leak.html http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.14/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:200 http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=40766 http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2ihen0/new_class_of_vulnerability_in_perl_web/ http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030978 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1074812 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-11 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0412.html http://blog.gerv.net/2014/10/new-class-of-vulnerability-in-perl-web-applications/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142524.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141309.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141321.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/07/20 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128578/Bugzilla-Account-Creation-XSS-Information-Leak.html http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.14/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:200 http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=40766 http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2ihen0/new_class_of_vulnerability_in_perl_web/ http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030978 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1074812 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-11
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-1572 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.