High severity · published Oct 18, 2021
CVE-2021-38562
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…
7.5
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35 · source: NVD
RT
Request Tracker · Bestpractical
4.2.0 before 4.2.17; 4.4.0 before 4.4.5; 5.0.0 before 5.0.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38562
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38562
Vendor Advisory
https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html
Patch
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57c
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00019.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/
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