CVE-2018-18898 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2018-18898

The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through...

Vulnerability Description

The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

bestpractical

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Affected Software

request tracker, fedora, ubuntu linux, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
4.1.13, 28, 29, 16.04, 18.04, 8.0, 10.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 17th, 2019
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.