CVE-2012-5884

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

5.0

Description

The User.get method in Bugzilla/WebService/User.pm in Bugzilla 4.3.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the saved searches of arbitrary users via an XMLRPC request or a JSONRPC request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4198.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.3.2`

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.