CVE-2012-6579

medium
Published 2013-07-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.4
VIR risk
6.4

Description

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled, allows remote attackers to configure encryption or signing for certain outbound e-mail, and possibly cause a denial of service (loss of e-mail readability), via an e-mail message to a queue's address.

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-2012-6579

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-October/000212.html

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

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