CVE-2002-1196: Mozilla Bugzilla

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

editproducts.cgi in Bugzilla 2.14.x before 2.14.4, and 2.16.x before 2.16.1, when the "usebuggroups" feature is enabled and more than 47 groups are specified, does not properly calculate bit values for large numbers, which grants extra permissions to users via known features of Perl math that set multiple bits.

Affected products

• Mozilla Bugzilla: version 2.14 only; version 2.14.1 only; version 2.14.2 only; version 2.14.3 only; version 2.16 only

Published 2002-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.