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FKIE_CVE-2012-0465

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-04-27 20:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:37
Severity
Summary
Bugzilla 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.6, and 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.1, when the inbound_proxies option is enabled, does not properly validate the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to bypass the lockout policy via a series of authentication requests with (1) different IP address strings in this header or (2) a long string in this header.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla bugzilla 3.5.1
mozilla bugzilla 3.5.2
mozilla bugzilla 3.5.3
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 3.6.6
mozilla bugzilla 3.6.7
mozilla bugzilla 3.6.8
mozilla bugzilla 3.7.1
mozilla bugzilla 3.7.2
mozilla bugzilla 3.7.3
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.1
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.2
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.3
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.4
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.5
mozilla bugzilla 4.1.1
mozilla bugzilla 4.1.2
mozilla bugzilla 4.1.3
mozilla bugzilla 4.2
mozilla bugzilla 4.2
mozilla bugzilla 4.2
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