CVE-2013-3368

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

bin/rt in Request Tracker (RT) 3.8.x before 3.8.17 and 4.0.x before 4.0.13 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with predictable name.

Affected products

bestpractical rt: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc1, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.0.0-rc4, 4.0.0-rc5 (+71)

References

http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2013-May/000226.html
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2013-May/000227.html
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2013-May/000228.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53505
http://secunia.com/advisories/53522
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2670
http://www.osvdb.org/93612
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2013-May/000226.html
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2013-May/000227.html
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2013-May/000228.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53505
http://secunia.com/advisories/53522

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