CVE-2012-1968 Information disclosure in n/a
Remote attackers can read sensitive bug description information from HTML email tooltips due to incorrect privilege checks during email generation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2012-1968?
CVE-2012-1968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Bugzilla, published on 28 Jul 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 and 4.3.x before 4.3.2 uses bug-editor privileges instead of bugmail-recipient privileges during construction of HTML bugmail documents, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive description information by reading the tooltip portions of an HTML e-mail message.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1968?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mozilla Bugzilla.
How do I fix CVE-2012-1968?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1968 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2012-1968 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1968 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Bugzilla
Sources
Also known as GHSA-556x-g9jp-j3xw.