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 lib/RT/REST2/Middleware/Auth.pm.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-10-18 08:52Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-08-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-203Observable DiscrepancyBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- edf0804bdaecbf23ed731c75657de718b90a73eca1969eb6eb8347d7b56a19f3
05 Affected products
06 References
- docs.bestpractical.comhttps://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57c
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-825dd1879fhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20220623 [SECURITY] [DLA 3057-1] request-tracker4 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00019.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- request-tracker4 Fixed in 4.4.4+dfsg-3
- request-tracker5 Fixed in 5.0.3+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- request-tracker5 Fixed in 5.0.3+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- request-tracker5 Fixed in 5.0.3+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- request-tracker4 Fixed in 4.4.3-2+deb10u3build0.20.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- request-tracker4 Fixed in 4.4.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- request-tracker4 Fixed in 4.4.4+dfsg-2ubuntu2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- request-tracker4 Fixed in 4.4.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS
- request-tracker5 Fixed in 5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.