CVE-2018-18898

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    CVE-2018-18898

    Published: 21 Mar 2019Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPJVDT77ZPRU5Z2BEMZM7EBY6WZHUATZ/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YR46PPHBEM76DNN4DEQMAYIKLCO3TQU2/, https://bestpractical.com/download-page, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00009.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4517-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- ce5f72fbdc8bf043d45a1c09fa1c2af807a08695
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    rt-4.4.0rc3
    rt-4.4.0
    rt-4.4.0rc2
    rt-4.4.0rc1

    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