Bugzilla User Credentials Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:16745

Info

Bugzilla User Credentials Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 16745
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 21 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 22 2006 07:57PM
Credit: Frédéric Buclin is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Mozilla Bugzilla 2.21.2
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.21.1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.21
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20 rc2
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20 rc1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.19.3
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20
Not Vulnerable: Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20.1
Mozilla Bugzilla 2.22 RC1

Discussion

Bugzilla User Credentials Information Disclosure Vulnerability


Bugzilla is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. This issue is due to a design error in the application.

An attacker can exploit this issue by tricking a victim user into following a malicious URI and then retrieving the victim user's login credentials.

To successfully exploit this issue, the attacker requires the name of the path where the login page resides and resolves to a computer on the local network of the victim user.

Exploit / POC

Bugzilla User Credentials Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Bugzilla User Credentials Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates to address this issue. Please see the referenced vendor advisory for further information.


Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20 rc1

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.20 rc2

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.21

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.21.1

Mozilla Bugzilla 2.21.2

References

Bugzilla User Credentials Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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