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CVE-2021-38562

Date: October 18, 2021

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.

Language: Perl

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-38562

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38562

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00019.html

Url: https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57c

Url: https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/d16f8cf13c2af517ee55a85e7b91a0267477189f

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-38562

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-38562

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Observable Discrepancy

CWE-203

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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