CVE-2012-0465
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.
- EPSS
- 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 68% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:bugzilla
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639