High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-38562
CVE-2021-38562
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.
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Affected products
5- cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: >=4.2.0,<4.2.17
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Best Practical/Request Tracker (RT)description
- Range: <4.2.17, <4.4.5, <5.0.2
Patches
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References
4- github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57cnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00019.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JK57CEEXLQF7MGBCUX76DZHXML7LUSQ/nvd
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