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    CVE-2021-38562

    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.

    Published:Oct 18, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Oct 18, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.00122
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Bestpractical
    Product
    Request Tracker
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-189 Black Box Reverse Engineering

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High