CVE-2012-4734

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Request Tracker (RT) 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8 allows remote attackers to conduct a "confused deputy" attack to bypass the CSRF warning protection mechanism and cause victims to "modify arbitrary state" via unknown vectors related to a crafted link.

Affected products

bestpractical rt: 3.8.0, 3.8.0-preflight1, 3.8.0-rc1, 3.8.0-rc2, 3.8.0-rc3, 3.8.1 (+61)

References

http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-October/000212.html
http://osvdb.org/86709
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-October/000212.html
http://osvdb.org/86709

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