Critical severity · published Jul 20, 2026
CVE-2026-44231
RT: Privilege escalation and information disclosure via REST 2.0 user collection endpoint
9.1
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
RT is an open source, enterprise-grade issue and ticket tracking system. Versions prior to 5.0.10, 6.0.0 and above, prior to 6.0.3 contain an information disclosure and privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST 2.0 API. A privileged (non-administrative) user can obtain authentication credentials belonging to other users — including users with administrative privileges — and use those credentials to read data as those users via RT's feed endpoints. The same request that exposes the credentials also rotates them, invalidating previously-distributed feed URLs across the instance. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.0.10 and 6.0.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RT
rt · bestpractical
< 5.0.10; >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3 · source: vendor
RT
Request Tracker · Bestpractical
before 5.0.10; 6.0.0 before 6.0.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44231
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44231
Release Notes
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/releases/tag/rt-6.0.3
Mitigation
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/security/advisories/GHSA-7rx2-x357-wv74
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