CVE-2009-3166: Mozilla Bugzilla

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

token.cgi in Bugzilla 3.4rc1 through 3.4.1 places a password in a URL at the beginning of a login session that occurs immediately after a password reset, which allows context-dependent attackers to discover passwords by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Bugzilla: version 3.4 only; version 3.4.1 only

Published 2009-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.