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CVE-2021-38562 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html CVEVendor Advisory
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57c CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00019.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/ CVE
https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html [email protected]Vendor Advisory

see all 8 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-203Observable Discrepancy[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
bestpractical request tracker
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.17
>= 4.4.0, < 4.4.5
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
35

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-38562
NVD Published Date:
Oct 18, 2021
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2021-38562 Details - Not Deferred