Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-4499

Title: Mozilla Bugzilla Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-4499.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Sep 14, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-4499: Util.pm in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.15, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.10, and 5.x before 5.0.1 mishandles long e-mail addresses during account registration, which allows remote attackers to obtain the default privileges for an arbitrary domain name by placing that name in a substring of an address, as demonstrated by truncation of an @mozilla.com.example.com address to an @mozilla.com address.

Impacted Vendors

M
mozilla 1
J
jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168725.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169946.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169983.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133578/Bugzilla-Unauthorized-Account-Creation.html http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/48 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/49 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033542 https://bug1202447.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8657861 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202447 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168725.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169946.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169983.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133578/Bugzilla-Unauthorized-Account-Creation.html http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/48 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/49 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033542 https://bug1202447.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8657861 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202447
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-4499 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.