CVE-2012-0453 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in xmlrpc.cgi in Bugzilla 4.0.2 through 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 through 4.2rc2, when mod_perl is used, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify the product's installation via the XML-RPC API

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in xmlrpc.cgi in Bugzilla 4.0.2 through 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 through 4.2rc2, when mod_perl is used, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify the product's installation via the XML-RPC API

Published Feb 25, 2012

5.1

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.83%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in xmlrpc.cgi in Bugzilla 4.0.2 through 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 through 4.2rc2, when mod_perl is used, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify the product's installation via the XML-RPC API.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.83% 0.00826

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00826

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.83% (0.00826)	55.87th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.84% (0.00836)	52.77th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00129)	29.90th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00159)	53.70th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 28, 2024	0.16% (0.00159)	52.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00159)	50.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (3)

http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.4/
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026737
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725663
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/4.0.4/		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026737		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725663		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 25, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jan 9, 2012

Link CVE-2012-0453

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-0453

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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