CVE-2012-0465

medium

Published 2012-04-27 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.5.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.5.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.5.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.0`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.4`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.5`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.6`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.7`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.8`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.4`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.5`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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