Best Practical Request Tracker up to 4.0.5 Encryption cryptographic issue

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Best Practical Request Tracker up to 4.0.5. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Encryption. Performing a manipulation results in cryptographic issue. This vulnerability was named CVE-2012-6579. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Best Practical Request Tracker up to 4.0.5 (Ticket Tracking Software). This affects an unknown function of the component Encryption. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-310. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled, allows remote attackers to configure encryption or signing for certain outbound e-mail, and possibly cause a denial of service (loss of e-mail readability), via an e-mail message to a queue s address.

The weakness was presented 07/24/2013 (Website). The advisory is shared at lists.bestpractical.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-6579 since 07/23/2013. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 62722 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.0.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (62722). See VDB-62906, VDB-62905, VDB-62904 and VDB-62902 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.2

VulDB Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Temp Score: 6.2
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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
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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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-2012-6579 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-6579
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-64533

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SecurityFocus: 56290

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/04/2022 08:08
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (47), 03/01/2018 07:50 (6), 01/04/2022 08:08 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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