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CVE-2011-2979
Bugzilla 4.1.x before 4.1.3 generates different responses for certain assignee queries depending on whether the group name is valid, which…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- 74298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- bugzilla-queries-info-disclosure(69166) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 45501 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.4.11/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674497 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 74299 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- DSA-2322 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 49042 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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