CVE-2012-0465

Bugzilla 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.6, and 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.1, when the inbound_proxies option is enabled, does not properly validate the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the lockout policy via a series of authentication requests with (1) different IP address strings in this header or (2) a long string in this header.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-04-27

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Bugzilla (Mozilla)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639