CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2978
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Bugzilla 2.16rc1 through 2.22.7, 3.0.x through 3.3.x, 3.4.x before 3.4.12, 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.6, 3.7.x, 4.0.x before 4.0.2, and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 does not prevent changes to the confirmation e-mail address (aka old_email field) for e-mail change notifications, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform arbitrary address changes by leveraging an unattended workstation.
Affected configurations
• 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 2.16.6
• mozilla bugzilla 2.16.7
• mozilla bugzilla 2.16.8
• mozilla bugzilla 2.16.9
• mozilla bugzilla 2.16.10
• mozilla bugzilla 2.16.11
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17.1
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17.3
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17.4
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17.5
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17.6
• mozilla bugzilla 2.17.7
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18.1
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18.2
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18.3
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18.4
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18.5
• mozilla bugzilla 2.18.6
• mozilla bugzilla 2.19
• mozilla bugzilla 2.19.1
• mozilla bugzilla 2.19.2
• mozilla bugzilla 2.19.3
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.1
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.2
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.3
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.4
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.5
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.6
• mozilla bugzilla 2.20.7
• mozilla bugzilla 2.21
• mozilla bugzilla 2.21.1
• mozilla bugzilla 2.21.2
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.1
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.2
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.3
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.4
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.5
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.6
• mozilla bugzilla 2.22.7
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.0
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.1
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.2
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.3
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.4
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.5
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.6
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.7
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.8
• mozilla bugzilla 3.0.9
… and 55 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45501 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.4.11/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2322 www.debian.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/74301 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49042 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670868 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69036 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45501 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.4.11/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2322 www.debian.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/74301 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49042 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670868 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69036 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com