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Request Tracker EUVDEUVD-2026-46079

| CVE-2026-44231 CRITICAL
Information Exposure (CWE-200)
2026-07-20 GitHub_M
9.1
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as privileged non-admin user
  2. Delivery
    Query REST 2.0 user collection endpoint
  3. Exploit
    Harvest admin feed credentials
  4. Execution
    Replay tokens against RSS/iCal feed endpoints
  5. Impact
    Read data as administrator (victim feed URLs rotated)

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated RT account with privileged (non-administrative) rights sufficient to call the REST 2.0 user collection endpoint (CVSS PR:L) - it is not exploitable by anonymous or unauthenticated users. The attacker targets the REST 2.0 API to read other users' feed authentication credentials, then must use RT's RSS or iCal feed endpoints to act on the stolen tokens. Limiting factors: a valid privileged login is mandatory, the affected feature is the REST 2.0 API plus feed endpoints (deployments that disable REST 2.0 or feeds reduce exposure), and only RT versions <5.0.10 and 6.0.0-6.0.2 are affected. A notable side effect that also limits stealth: the credential-reading request rotates the victim's token, breaking their existing feed URLs and potentially tipping off defenders.

Impact

The supplied CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L, base 9.1 Critical) is internally consistent with the description: network-reachable API, low complexity, requires an authenticated privileged (PR:L) but non-admin account, no user interaction, and a scope change (S:C) because a lower-privileged actor crosses a trust boundary to act as administrators - a textbook privilege-escalation signal. Confidentiality is High (admin credential/data disclosure); Integrity and Availability are Low, reflecting the token rotation that mutates state and breaks existing feed URLs. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC was provided, so real-world exploitation probability cannot be quantified from the input; the practical barrier is that an attacker must already hold a valid privileged RT account, which makes this primarily an insider or post-compromise escalation risk rather than an internet-wide unauthenticated threat. That authentication precondition tempers the Critical rating in practice, but the payoff (impersonating administrators) makes it a genuine priority to patch.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A disgruntled help-desk agent who holds a privileged (non-administrative) RT account queries the REST 2.0 user collection endpoint and reads back the feed authentication token belonging to an administrator. They paste that token into an RSS/iCal feed URL and pull tickets and data visible to the admin, exfiltrating sensitive content; the same call rotates the admin's token, breaking that user's existing feed subscriptions. No public POC was provided, and the low attack complexity means a knowledgeable insider could perform this with routine API calls.

Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Why: CRITICAL severity.
Patch available 0.4% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Jul 20, 2026

Privilege escalation and information disclosure in Best Practical's Request Tracker (RT) 6.0.0-6.0.2 and versions before 5.0.10 lets a privileged but non-administrative user harvest other users' authentication credentials - including those of administrators - through the REST 2.0 API and replay them against RT's RSS/iCal feed endpoints to read data as those victims. Because the same credential-exposing request also rotates the tokens, exploitation is destructive: it silently invalidates every previously distributed feed URL across the instance. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; the flaw is fixed in RT 5.0.10 and 6.0.3.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade to RT 5.0.10 (5.x line) or RT 6.0.3 (6.x line), available from https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-6.0.3.tar.gz and documented at https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/releases/tag/rt-6.0.3 and advisory https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/security/advisories/GHSA-7rx2-x357-wv74. Note that RT 6.0.3 inadvertently omitted a separate TSV export header-injection fix (CVE-2026-41073); 6.0.3 operators should additionally apply commit 525547751b76cc422015960bae3056f4e8d4351f (to ship in 6.0.4). If immediate patching is not possible, compensating controls include restricting or disabling the REST 2.0 user collection endpoint at the web-server/reverse-proxy layer (trade-off: breaks automation and integrations that rely on REST 2.0), tightly limiting which users hold privileged (non-admin) rights that grant API access, and monitoring feed-endpoint access and unexpected feed-token rotations. Because exploitation rotates feed credentials, expect that legitimate RSS/iCal feed URLs may need to be reissued after the upgrade.

Affected VersionsENISA

RT 6.0.0, < 6.0.3
RT < 5.0.10

Affected Packages

euvd rt fix: 5.0.10, 6.0.3

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

RT is a Perl-based, enterprise-grade issue and ticket-tracking platform (CPE cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:rt). The defect lives in the REST 2.0 API user collection endpoint, which over-exposes per-user secrets - specifically the authentication tokens RT issues for its RSS and iCal feed URLs (feeds are authenticated by an embedded per-user secret rather than an interactive login). Mapped to CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor), the root cause is an authorization/output-filtering failure: the endpoint returns credential material to any privileged user regardless of whether they should be able to see other accounts' secrets, so a low-tier privileged user can read the feed token of a higher-tier user and then authenticate to feed endpoints as that user.

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Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY 9.1 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
vuln.today AI 9.1 CRITICAL

Network REST API (AV:N/AC:L) needs a privileged non-admin login (PR:L, no UI); crossing to admin identity is a scope change (S:C) with high credential disclosure (C:H) and low integrity/availability from token rotation.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Jul 20, 2026 - 21:17 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 20, 2026 - 19:20 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.1

DescriptionCVE.org

RT is an open source, enterprise-grade issue and ticket tracking system. Versions prior to 5.0.10, 6.0.0 and above, prior to 6.0.3 contain an information disclosure and privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST 2.0 API. A privileged (non-administrative) user can obtain authentication credentials belonging to other users - including users with administrative privileges - and use those credentials to read data as those users via RT's feed endpoints. The same request that exposes the credentials also rotates them, invalidating previously-distributed feed URLs across the instance. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.0.10 and 6.0.3.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Best Practical's Request Tracker versions 6.0.0-6.0.2 and earlier 5.x releases contain a critical privilege escalation flaw allowing authenticated privileged users to harvest and replay administrative credentials through the REST 2.0 API, gaining unauthorized access to ticket data. Exploitation silently breaks all RSS and iCal feed integrations across the instance. Organizations using vulnerable RT versions face direct administrative account compromise and loss of dependent automation integrations.

Business Impact: Severe
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch: upgrade to Request Tracker 5.0.10 (for v5.x branch) or 6.0.3 (for v6.x branch).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 67% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
widely-used open-source ticketing system, moderate enterprise/support-desk footprint
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment CIRCL GitHub VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity CRITICAL
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.4%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
CRITICAL severity
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
Very High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +46
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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