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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2023-41259 json

Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.7 and 5.x before 5.0.5 allows Information Disclosure via fake or spoofed RT email headers in…

published 2023-11-03 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-45776

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.7 and 5.x before 5.0.5 allows Information Disclosure via fake or spoofed RT email headers in an email message or a mail-gateway REST API call.

Patch / fix

  • best_practical_solutions request_tracker 4.4.7, 5.0.5
  • request-tracker4 Debian 12 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u1
  • request-tracker5 Debian 12 5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u2
  • request-tracker5 Debian 14, Debian 13 5.0.5+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259

  • request-tracker4 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 4.4.3-2+deb10u3build0.20.04.1
  • request-tracker4 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4.4.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22.04.1
  • request-tracker4 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 4.4.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • request-tracker5 Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-41259

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rt4 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 4.4.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-41259

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • best_practical_solutions request_tracker

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.