| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 995167, 995175 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| request-tracker4 (PTS) | stretch | 4.4.1-3+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.4.1-3+deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
| buster | 4.4.3-2+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 4.4.4+dfsg-2+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 4.4.4+dfsg-3 | fixed | |
| request-tracker5 (PTS) | sid | 5.0.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| request-tracker4 | source | buster | 4.4.3-2+deb10u1 | |||
| request-tracker4 | source | bullseye | 4.4.4+dfsg-2+deb11u1 | |||
| request-tracker4 | source | (unstable) | 4.4.4+dfsg-3 | 995175 | ||
| request-tracker5 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 995167 |
[stretch] - request-tracker4 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/70749bb66cb13dd70bd53340c371038a5f3ca57c (rt-5.0.2)
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/d16f8cf13c2af517ee55a85e7b91a0267477189f (rt-4.4.5)
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/d16f8cf13c2af517ee55a85e7b91a0267477189f (rt-4.2.17)