CVE-2015-6506
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cryptography interface in Request Tracker (RT) before 4.2.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted public key.
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 | 4.2.11-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.2.11-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| bestpractical | request_tracker | {"endIncluding":"4.2.11"} | |
References
- http://blog.bestpractical.com/2015/08/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164607.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165124.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165163.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3335
- https://bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/4.2.12
- https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/36a461947b00b105336adb4997d
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6506
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.