CVE-2011-2979
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Bugzilla 4.1.x before 4.1.3 generates different responses for certain assignee queries depending on whether the group name is valid, which allows remote attackers to determine the existence of private group names via a custom search. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2010-2756 regression.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45501
- http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.4.11/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2322
- http://www.osvdb.org/74298
- http://www.osvdb.org/74299
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49042
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674497
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69166
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45501
- http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.4.11/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2322
- http://www.osvdb.org/74298
- http://www.osvdb.org/74299
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49042
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674497
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69166
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.