CVE-2002-1196 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2002-1196?

CVE-2002-1196 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Bugzilla, published on 1 Sep 2004. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

editproducts.cgi in Bugzilla 2.14.x before 2.14.4, and 2.16.x before 2.16.1, when the "usebuggroups" feature is enabled and more than 47 groups are specified, does not properly calculate bit values for large numbers, which grants extra permissions to users via known features of Perl math that set multiple bits.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1196?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Bugzilla.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1196?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2002-1196 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1196 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Bugzilla

• CVE-2004-0769 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-1042 SQL injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-1043 SQL injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0007 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2018-5123 Cross-site request forgery in Bugzilla High 8.8

All Mozilla Bugzilla vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DSA-173, GHSA-c3vj-q3f8-r9c3.