3.7.1 Security Advisory
Monday, Jul 5th, 2010Summary ======= Bugzilla is a Web-based bug-tracking system used by a large number of software projects. The following security issue has been discovered in Bugzilla: * In the 3.7.1 development snapshot, adding bugs using email_in.pl or the WebServices Bug.create method would not restrict bugs to Mandatory or Default groups. All affected installations are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. Vulnerability Details ===================== Class: Unauthorized Access to Confidential Information Fixed In: 3.7.2 Description: Bugzilla administrators can set certain groups as being "mandatory" for when a new bug is filed. (That is, bugs are always restricted to access by those groups.) Administrators can also set some groups as "Default", meaning that if the user makes no selection about groups, the new bug will be restricted to the groups set as Default. In the unreleased 3.7 code and 3.7.1 development snapshot, restricting a bug to mandatory or default groups would not happen when the bug was newly created using the inbound email interface (email_in.pl) or the "Bug.create" method in the WebServices interface. This means that these bugs could be publicly available, when they should have been restricted to being accessible only to certain groups. References: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574892 Vulnerability Solutions ======================= The fix for this issue is included in the releases. Upgrading to a release with the relevant fix will protect your installation from possible exploits of this issue. If you are unable to upgrade but would like to patch just the security vulnerability, there are patches available for the issue at the "References" URL. Full release downloads, patches to upgrade Bugzilla from previous versions, and git upgrade instructions are available at: https://www.bugzilla.org/download/ Credits ======= The Bugzilla team wish to thank the following people for their assistance in locating, advising us of, and assisting us to fix this issue: Reporter: Max Kanat-Alexander Fixed by: Frédéric Buclin General information about the Bugzilla bug-tracking system can be found at: https://www.bugzilla.org/ Comments and follow-ups can be directed to the mozilla.support.bugzilla newsgroup or the support-bugzilla mailing list. https://www.bugzilla.org/support/ has directions for accessing these forums.