VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2978

medium
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
5.0

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.

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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.8
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.9
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.10
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.16.11
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.17.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.18.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.19
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.19.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.19.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.19.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.20.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.21
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.21.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.21.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla2.22.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.0
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.8
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.9
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.10
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.0.11
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.1.0
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.1.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.1.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.1.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.1.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.8
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.9
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.2.10
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.3.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.3.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.3.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.3.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.8
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.9
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.10
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.4.11
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.5.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.5.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.5.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6.0
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.6.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.7.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.7.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla3.7.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.0
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.0.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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