Executive Summary

Summary
Title rtfm security update
Informations
Name DSA-2568 First vendor Publication 2012-10-26
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2012-10-26
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

IT was discovered that RTFM, the FAQ manager for Request Tracker, allows authenticated users to create articles in any class.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-4+squeeze2.

We recommend that you upgrade your rtfm packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2568

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19999
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19999
Title: DSA-2568-1 rtfm - privilege escalation
Description: It was discovered that RTFM, the FAQ manager for Request Tracker, allows authenticated users to create articles in any class.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2568-1
CVE-2012-4731
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): rtfm
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-11-26 Name : FreeBSD Ports: rt40
File : nvt/freebsd_rt400.nasl
2012-11-16 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2568-1 (rtfm)
File : nvt/deb_2568_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-11-27 Name : The remote web server is running a Perl application that is affected by multi...
File : rt_3_8_15_or_4_0_8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-11-02 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_4b738d54242711e29817c8600054b392.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-10-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2568.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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2014-02-17 11:31:26
  • Multiple Updates
2012-11-13 13:21:58
  • Multiple Updates
2012-11-11 17:20:40
  • Multiple Updates