CVE-2023-41259 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0019.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Bestpractical	Request Tracker

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker::::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3642-1	request-tracker4 security update
Debian DSA	DSA-5541-1	request-tracker5 security update
Debian DSA	DSA-5542-1	request-tracker4 security update
EUVD	EUVD-2023-45776	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.
Ubuntu USN	USN-6529-1	Request Tracker vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7692-1	Request Tracker vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/4.4.7
https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/5.0.5
https://docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00046.html

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00046.html

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-200

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T19:21:05.839Z

Reserved: 2023-08-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-41259

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:54:04.667Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-03T05:15:29.490

Modified: 2025-11-04T20:16:45.920

Link: CVE-2023-41259

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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