CVE-2011-2977

low

Published 2011-08-09 · 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

2.1

Description

Bugzilla 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 on Windows does not delete the temporary files associated with uploaded attachments, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files. NOTE: this issue exists because of a regression in 3.6.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.0`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.4`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.6.5`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.2`
mozilla	bugzilla	`3.7.3`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.0.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.1`
mozilla	bugzilla	`4.1.2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.