CVE-2023-41259

Publication date 3 November 2023

Last updated 14 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
request-tracker4	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 4.4.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1.23.10.1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 4.4.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1.23.04.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 4.4.4+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.4.3-2+deb10u3build0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.4.2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored regressions likely
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
request-tracker5	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 5.0.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1+esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
request-tracker5	Upstream: 90fb016

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N