Best Practical Request Tracker up to 4.0.5 cryptographic issue

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Best Practical Request Tracker up to 4.0.5. It has been declared as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-6578. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Best Practical Request Tracker up to 4.0.5 (Ticket Tracking Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled with a "Sign by default" queue configuration, uses a queue s key for signing, which might allow remote attackers to spoof messages by leveraging the lack of authentication semantics.

The weakness was disclosed 07/24/2013 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at lists.bestpractical.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-6578 since 07/23/2013. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 62722 (Debian DSA-2567-1 : request-tracker3.8 - several vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 4.0.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (62722). The entries VDB-62906, VDB-62905, VDB-62904 and VDB-62902 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cryptographic issue
CWE: CWE-310
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 62722
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-2567-1 : request-tracker3.8 - several vulnerabilities
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Request Tracker 4.0.6

Timelineinfo

07/23/2013 🔍
07/24/2013 +1 days 🔍
07/24/2013 +0 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +608 days 🔍
01/04/2022 +2478 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: DSA-2567
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2012-6578 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-6578
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-64532

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SecurityFocus: 56290

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/04/2022 08:01
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (48), 02/19/2018 08:11 (6), 01/04/2022 08:01 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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