VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4734

medium
Published 2012-11-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Request Tracker (RT) 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8 allows remote attackers to conduct a "confused deputy" attack to bypass the CSRF warning protection mechanism and cause victims to "modify arbitrary state" via unknown vectors related to a crafted link.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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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

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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