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request-tracker4, request-tracker5 — security advisory
Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.7 and 5.x before 5.0.5 allows Information Disclosure via fake or spoofed RT email headers in an email message or a mail-gateway REST API call.
- Products
- request-tracker4, request-tracker5
- Affected versions
- 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1, 5.0.3+dfsg-2, 5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u1
- Fixed versions
- 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u1, 5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u2, 5.0.5+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-41259
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.7 and 5.x before 5.0.5 allows Information Disclosure via fake or spoofed RT email headers in an email message or a mail-gateway REST API call.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259
request-tracker4
Fixed versions: 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u1
request-tracker5
Fixed versions: 5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u2
request-tracker5
Fixed versions: 5.0.5+dfsg-1
request-tracker5
Fixed versions: 5.0.5+dfsg-1
Complete source record
{
"id": "a6e4b1b9116eae7e171bcdeb13a3fc8d9b0991c7a8ad0c307cba331bcae55192",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259",
"summary": "Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.7 and 5.x before 5.0.5 allows Information Disclosure via fake or spoofed RT email headers in an email message or a mail-gateway REST API call.",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259",
"products": [
{
"name": {
"value": "request-tracker4",
"evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
},
"prerequisites": [],
"fixed_versions": [
{
"value": "4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u1",
"evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
}
],
"affected_versions": [
{
"value": "4.4.6+dfsg-1.1",
"evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
}
]
},
{
"name": {
"value": "request-tracker5",
"evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
},
"prerequisites": [],
"fixed_versions": [
{
"value": "5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u2",
"evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
}
],
"affected_versions": [
{
"value": "5.0.3+dfsg-2",
"evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
},
{
"value": "5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u1",
"evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
}
]
},
{
"name": {
"value": "request-tracker5",
"evidence": "/affected/2/package/name"
},
"prerequisites": [],
"fixed_versions": [
{
"value": "5.0.5+dfsg-1",
"evidence": "/affected/2/ranges"
}
],
"affected_versions": []
},
{
"name": {
"value": "request-tracker5",
"evidence": "/affected/3/package/name"
},
"prerequisites": [],
"fixed_versions": [
{
"value": "5.0.5+dfsg-1",
"evidence": "/affected/3/ranges"
}
],
"affected_versions": []
}
],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259",
"aliases": [
"DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u1"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "request-tracker4",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/request-tracker4?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
},
"versions": [
"4.4.6+dfsg-1.1"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u2"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "request-tracker5",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/request-tracker5?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
},
"versions": [
"5.0.3+dfsg-2",
"5.0.3+dfsg-3~deb12u1"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "5.0.5+dfsg-1"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "request-tracker5",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/request-tracker5?arch=source&distro=trixie",
"ecosystem": "Debian:13"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "5.0.5+dfsg-1"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "request-tracker5",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/request-tracker5?arch=source&distro=forky",
"ecosystem": "Debian:14"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41259.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:49.074531864Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2023-41259"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-41259"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2023-41259",
"evidence": "/upstream"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 456891,
"published_at": "2023-11-03T05:15:29.49+00:00"
}