CVE-2015-8508
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x...
CVE-2015-8508 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.7) in Mozilla Bugzilla, published January 3, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.48%, the 73rd percentile. Fixed in bugzilla 4.4.11-1.mga5.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.11, and 4.5.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.2, when a local dot configuration is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted bug summary.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
4.7
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.11, and 4.5.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.2, when a local dot configuration is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted bug summary.
- Record
CVE-2015-8508- CVSS 3.0
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 2.6 Low
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.11, and 4.5.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.2, when a local dot configuration is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted bug summary.
- Record
CVE-2015-8508- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-8389 No score
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.11, and 4.5.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.2, when a local dot configuration is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted bug summary.
- Record
EUVD-2015-8389- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-g3c3-92vq-wv28
4.7
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in showdependencygraph.cgi in Bugzilla 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.16, 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4.11, and 4.5.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.2, when a local dot configuration is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted bug summary.
- Record
GHSA-g3c3-92vq-wv28- CVSS 3.0
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0006 No score
Updated bugzilla packages fix security vulnerability
Login names (usually an email address) longer than 127 characters are silently truncated in MySQL which could cause the domain name of the email address to be corrupted. An attacker could use this vulnerability to create an account with an email address different from the one originally requested. The login name could then be automatically added to groups based on the group's regular expression setting (CVE-2015-4499).
During the generation of a dependency graph, the code for the HTML image map is generated locally if a local dot installation is used. With escaped HTML characters in a bug summary, it is possible to inject unfiltered HTML code in the map file which the CreateImagemap function generates. This could be used for a cross-site scripting attack (CVE-2015-8508).
If an external HTML page contains a "script" tag with its src attribute pointing to a buglist in CSV format, some web browsers incorrectly try to parse the CSV file as valid JavaScript code. As the buglist is generated based on the privileges of the user logged into Bugzilla, the external page could collect confidential data contained in the CSV file (CVE-2015-8509).
The bugzilla package has been updated to version 4.4.11, fixing these issues and a few other bugs.
- Record
MGASA-2016-0006- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10664-1 No score
bugzilla-5.0.6-4.2 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the bugzilla-5.0.6-4.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10664-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
bugzillaMageia:5 |
before 4.4.11-1.mga5 | 4.4.11-1.mga5 |
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | aliases | EUVD |
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
References
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221518
seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/131
securityfocus.com/bid/79660
securitytracker.com/id/1034556
packetstormsecurity.com/files/135048/Bugzilla-Cross-Site-Scripting-Information-Leak.html
bugzilla.org/security/4.2.15
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nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8508
github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3c3-92vq-wv28
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0006.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16776
bugzilla.org/security/4.2.14
bugzilla.org/releases/4.4.10/release-notes.html
bugzilla.org/releases/4.4.11/release-notes.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175113.html
lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/671083
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1517
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1571
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4499
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8508
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8509
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2803