CVE-2002-0805: Mozilla Bugzilla

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Bugzilla 2.14 before 2.14.2, and 2.16 before 2.16rc2, (1) creates new directories with world-writable permissions, and (2) creates the params file with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to modify the files and execute code.

Affected products

• Mozilla Bugzilla: version 2.14 only; version 2.14.1 only; version 2.16 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.