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.

Published: 2012-02-25 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-0453 is rated Low Risk (34.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.18%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-0453

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-23 0.13% 0.18% +0.05%
2 2025-03-30 0.18% 0.13% -0.06%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.18% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-0453

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.1 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 4.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-0453

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-0453

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2012-0453 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bugzilla), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): not-affected 6. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-0453

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-0453

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.1.3 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozilla bugzilla 4.2 cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:4.2:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-0453

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