CVE-2012-0465

high

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.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-04-27

Updated: 2012-08-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High