CVE-2017-5361: Bestpractical Request Tracker

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 does not use a constant-time comparison algorithm for secrets, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive user password information via a timing side-channel attack.

Affected products

• Bestpractical Request Tracker: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …

Published 2017-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.