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CVE-2021-38562
Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) 4.2 before 4.2.17, 4.4 before...
Vulnerability Description
Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) 4.2 before 4.2.17, 4.4 before 4.4.5, and 5.0 before 5.0.2 allows sensitive information disclosure via a timing attack against lib/RT/REST2/Middleware/Auth.pm.
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.
References
- https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html
- https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57c
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00019.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
request tracker, fedora, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
4.2.0, 4.4.0, 5.0.0, 35, 9.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 18th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.