CVE-2012-4189 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field value that is not properly handled during construction of a tabular report, as demonstrated by the Version field

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field value that is not properly handled during construction of a tabular report, as demonstrated by the Version field

Published Nov 16, 2012

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.04%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field value that is not properly handled during construction of a tabular report, as demonstrated by the Version field.

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.04% 0.01038

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

EPSS probability 0.01038

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 (9 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.04% (0.01038)	62.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.04% (0.01038)	59.33th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.30% (0.00296)	50.92th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.20% (0.00199)	58.75th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.20% (0.00199)	55.96th	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-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790296
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790296		x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 16, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 8, 2012

Link CVE-2012-4189

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-4189

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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