Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• bestpractical request tracker4.0.0
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.1
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.10
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.11
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.12
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.13
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.14
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.15
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.16
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.17
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.18
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.19
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.2
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.20
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.21
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.22
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.23
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.24
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.3
• bestpractical request tracker4.0.4

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-44231RT: Privilege escalation and information disclosure via REST 2.0 user collection endpoint
  36Monitor
• CVE-2017-5944The dashboard subscription interface in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 might allow remo
  36Monitor
• CVE-2021-38562Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) 4.2 before 4.2.17, 4.4 before 4.4.5, and 5.0 before 5.0.2 allows sensitive information disclosure via a
  31Monitor
• CVE-2018-18898The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorit
  31Monitor
• CVE-2013-3525SQL injection vulnerability in Approvals/ in Request Tracker (RT) 4.0.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL comman
  31Monitor
• CVE-2023-45024Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) 5 before 5.0.5 allows Information Disclosure via a transaction search in the transaction query builder.
  30Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.