| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3057-1, ELA-647-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 995167, 995175 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| request-tracker4 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.2.8-3+deb8u4 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.4.1-3+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.4.1-3+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.4.3-2+deb10u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.4.4+dfsg-2+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.4.7+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| request-tracker5 (PTS) | bookworm (security), bookworm | 5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.0.7+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
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)