CVE-2014-1572: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The confirm_create_account function in the account-creation feature in token.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x through 4.0.x before 4.0.15, 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.6, and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 does not specify a scalar context for the realname parameter, which allows remote attackers to create accounts with unverified e-mail addresses by sending three realname values with realname=login_name as the second, as demonstrated by selecting an e-mail address with a domain name for which group privileges are automatically granted.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 19 only; version 20 only; version 21 only
• Mozilla Bugzilla: version 2.0 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.6 only; version 2.8 only; version 2.9 only; …

Published 2014-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.