CVE-2015-6506

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cryptography interface in Request Tracker (RT) before 4.2.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted public key.

Affected products

Best Practical Request Tracker: through 4.2.11

References

http://blog.bestpractical.com/2015/08/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164607.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165124.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165163.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3335
https://bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/4.2.12
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/commit/36a461947b00b105336adb4997d
http://blog.bestpractical.com/2015/08/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164607.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165124.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165163.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3335

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