Bug 2008957 (CVE-2021-38562)

Summary:	CVE-2021-38562 rt: User enumeration through a timing side-channel attack
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	j, perl-devel, rc040203
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-09-29 15:00:29 UTC

Package: request-tracker5
Version: 5.0.1+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: security

Hi,

upstream has fixed the following issue in 5.0.2:

"In previous versions, RT's native login system is vulnerable to user 
enumeration through a timing side-channel attack. This means an external 
entity could try to find valid usernames by attempting logins and 
comparing the time to evaluate each login attempt for valid and invalid 
usernames. This vulnerability does not allow any access to the RT 
system. This vulnerability is assigned CVE-2021-38562 and is fixed
in this release."

It would be nice if you could upgrade (or cherry-pick) that fix, please 
also mention 'CVE-2021-38562' in the changelog when doing so.

Regards,
Daniel

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-09-29 15:00:45 UTC

Created rt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2008958]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-09-29 18:21:12 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.