CVE-2012-4731
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
FAQ manager for Request Tracker (RTFM) before 2.4.5 does not properly check user rights, which allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary articles in arbitrary classes via unknown vectors.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.0.7-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.0.7-2 |
References
- http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-October/000212.html
- http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-October/000215.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51062
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51111
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2568
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4731
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.