CVE-2012-4730

low
Published 2012-11-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

Description

Request Tracker (RT) 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8 allows remote authenticated users with ModifySelf or AdminUser privileges to inject arbitrary email headers and conduct phishing attacks or obtain sensitive information via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4730

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.7-2
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.7-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bestpracticalrt3.8.0
bestpracticalrt3.8.1
bestpracticalrt3.8.2
bestpracticalrt3.8.3
bestpracticalrt3.8.4
bestpracticalrt3.8.5
bestpracticalrt3.8.6
bestpracticalrt3.8.7
bestpracticalrt3.8.8
bestpracticalrt3.8.9
bestpracticalrt3.8.10
bestpracticalrt3.8.11
bestpracticalrt3.8.12
bestpracticalrt3.8.13
bestpracticalrt3.8.14
bestpracticalrt4.0.0
bestpracticalrt4.0.1
bestpracticalrt4.0.2
bestpracticalrt4.0.3
bestpracticalrt4.0.4
bestpracticalrt4.0.5
bestpracticalrt4.0.6
bestpracticalrt4.0.7
bestpracticalrt4.0.8

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.