Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-1573

Title: Mozilla Bugzilla Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-1573.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Oct 13, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-1573: 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 ensure that a scalar context is used for certain CGI parameters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by sending three values for a single parameter name.

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.securityfocus.com/bid/70257 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030978 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075578 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.securityfocus.com/bid/70257 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030978 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075578 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-11
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-1573 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.