Access Restriction Bypass Affecting rt-authen-externalauth package, versions <0.10-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.36% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-RTAUTHENEXTERNALAUTH-264098
  • published15 Aug 2012
  • disclosed15 Aug 2012

Introduced: 15 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-2770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 rt-authen-externalauth to version 0.10-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rt-authen-externalauth package and not the rt-authen-externalauth package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Authen::ExternalAuth extension before 0.11 for Best Practical Solutions RT allows remote attackers to obtain a logged-in session via unspecified vectors related to the "URL of a RSS feed of the user."

CVSS Base Scores

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