Mozilla Bugzilla Multiple Authentication Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

BID:11511

Info

Mozilla Bugzilla Multiple Authentication Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 11511
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 25 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 25 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of these issues is credited to Michael Whitfield, Joel Peshkin, Casey Klein, and Myk Melez.
Vulnerable: Mozilla Bugzilla 2.18 rc2
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.18 rc1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17.7
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17.6
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17.5
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17.4
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17.3
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17.1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.17
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.5
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.4
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.3
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.2
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.0
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.5
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.4
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.3
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.2
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14
- Redhat Linux 7.1
- Redhat Linux 7.1
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Redhat Linux 7.0
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.12
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.10
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.8
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 3.5.1
- Microsoft Windows NT 3.5.1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 Mozilla Bugzilla 2.6
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.4
Not Vulnerable: Mozilla Bugzilla 2.18 rc3
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.7

Discussion

Mozilla Bugzilla Multiple Authentication Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Mozilla Bugzilla is affected by multiple authentication bypass and information disclosure vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly validate access permissions of a user prior to revealing or altering information.

An attacker can leverage these issues to disclose bug details that are marked private as well as edit bug reports without requiring authorization.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Bugzilla Multiple Authentication Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

No exploit is required to leverage any of these issues.

Solution / Fix

Mozilla Bugzilla Multiple Authentication Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.

Conectiva Linux has made advisory CLA-2004:896 along with fixes available dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.


Mozilla Bugzilla 2.10

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.12

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.1

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.2

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.3

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.4

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.14.5

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.1

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.2

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.3

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.4

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.16.5

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.18 rc1

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.18 rc2

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.4

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.6

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.8

References

Mozilla Bugzilla Multiple Authentication Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

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