Resource exhaustion in Bestpractical Request_tracker
CVE-2018-18898
The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.024 (81.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Bestpractical Request_tracker
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 16.04, 18.04
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 28, 29
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Product, Release Notes)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-18898?
- CVE-2018-18898 is a high-severity vulnerability in Bestpractical Request_tracker, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-03-21.
- How severe is CVE-2018-18898?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.