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Bugzilla Internal Error Response Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA13701
Release Date: 2005-01-04
Last Update: 2005-01-17
Popularity: 10,389 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Bugzilla 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1061


Description:
Michael Krax has reported a vulnerability in Bugzilla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed in HTTP requests is not properly sanitised before being returned to users in error messages when an internal error is encountered. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

Solution:
Update to version 2.16.8 or 2.18.
http://www.bugzilla.org/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Michael Krax

Changelog:
2005-01-17: Added link to vendor advisory. Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.7-nr/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272620


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