CVE-2014-9472
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.1
Description
The email gateway in RT (aka Request Tracker) 3.0.0 through 4.x before 4.0.23 and 4.2.x before 4.2.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted email.
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 | 7.0 | affected | |
| fedora | 21 | affected | |
| fedora | 22 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.2.8-3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.2.8-3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.6.8 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.6.10 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.6.11 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.3 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.4 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.7 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.9 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.10 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.11 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.12 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.13 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.14 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.15 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.16 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 3.8.17 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.0 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.1 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.2 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.3 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.4 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.5 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.6 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.7 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.8 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.9 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.10 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.11 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.12 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.13 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.14 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.15 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.16 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.17 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.18 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.19 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.20 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.21 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.0.22 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.0 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.1 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.2 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.3 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.4 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.5 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.6 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.7 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.8 | |
| bestpractical | request_tracker | 4.2.9 | |
References
- http://blog.bestpractical.com/2015/02/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154213.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154047.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3176
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72832
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9472
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.