VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6578

medium
Published 2013-07-24 · 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
4.3

Description

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled with a "Sign by default" queue configuration, uses a queue's key for signing, which might allow remote attackers to spoof messages by leveraging the lack of authentication semantics.

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

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

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.3
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.4
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.7
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.9
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.10
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.11
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.12
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.13
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.14
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.0
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.1
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.2
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.3
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.4
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.5
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.6
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.7

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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