CVE-2017-5361

medium
Published 2017-07-03 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 does not use a constant-time comparison algorithm for secrets, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive user password information via a timing side-channel attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.4.1-4
debian debianbullseyefixed4.4.1-4

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
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
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.8
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.9
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.10
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.11
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.12
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.13
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.14
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.15
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.16
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.17
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.18
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.19
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.20
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.21
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.22
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.23
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.24
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.0
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.1
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.2
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.3
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.4
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.5
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.6
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.7
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.8
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.9
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.10
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.11
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.12
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.2.13
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.4.0
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.4.1

References

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

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