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CVE-2006-2420

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2420 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Bugzilla versions 2.20rc1 through 2.20 and 2.21.1 when using RSS 1.0. The issue arises from certain RSS readers automatically decoding HTML-encoded sequences within a title element, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious scripts. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity with network access, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:2.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:2.20:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:2.20:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:2.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.21.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:bugzilla:2.21.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/18979
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24820
bugzilla.org / security/2.18.4
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 23379