CVE-2012-4198

medium

Published 2012-11-16 · 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

4.0

Description

The User.get method in Bugzilla/WebService/User.pm in Bugzilla 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.9, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1 has a different outcome for a groups request depending on whether a group exists, which allows remote authenticated users to discover private group names by observing whether a call throws an error.

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	`3.7`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0`
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	`4.0.6`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.7`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.8`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.2.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.2.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.2.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.3.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.3.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.3.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.