CVE-2021-38562 is a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability affecting Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) versions 4.2.x before 4.2.17, 4.4.x before 4.4.5, and 5.0.x before 5.0.2. This vulnerability, rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.5, allows an unauthenticated attacker to extract sensitive data through a timing attack against the REST2 authentication middleware. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.4.0, < 4.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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