CVE-2014-8630

medium
Published 2015-02-01 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Bugzilla before 4.0.16, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.12, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.0rc1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging the editcomponents privilege and triggering crafted input to a two-argument Perl open call, as demonstrated by shell metacharacters in a product name.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
21 Affected โ€”
20 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillabugzilla{"endIncluding":"4.0.16"}
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.1.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.7
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.8
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.9
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.10
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.2.11
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.3.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.3.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.3.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.4.6
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5.1
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5.2
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5.3
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5.4
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5.5
mozilla mozillabugzilla4.5.6

References

CWEs

CWE-77

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

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