CVE-2017-5361

MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.19%

rt-authen-externalauth - security update

Published: 7/3/2017Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-3883-1DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5361

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.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/request-tracker4from 0, < 4.4.1-4
Debian/rt-authen-externalauthfrom 0, < 0.10-4+deb7u1
Debian/rt-authen-externalauthfrom 0, < 0.25-1+deb8u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5361