Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.9rc2 and 4.x before 4.0.0rc4 uses the MD5 algorithm for password hashes, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack on the database.

The remote service uses an SSL certificate that has been signed using a cryptographically weak hashing algorithm - MD5. This algorithm is known to be vulnerable to collision attacks. In theory, a determined attacker may be able to leverage this weakness to generate another certificate with the same digital signature, which could allow them to masquerade as the affected service.

BestPractical report :

Internal audits of the RT codebase have uncovered a number of security vulnerabilities in RT. We are releasing versions 3.8.12 and 4.0.6 to resolve these vulnerabilities, as well as patches which apply atop all released versions of 3.8 and 4.0.

The vulnerabilities addressed by 3.8.12, 4.0.6, and the below patches include the following :

The previously released tool to upgrade weak password hashes as part of CVE-2011-0009 was an incomplete fix and failed to upgrade passwords of disabled users.

RT versions 3.0 and above contain a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities which allow an attacker to run JavaScript with the user's credentials. CVE-2011-2083 is assigned to this vulnerability.

RT versions 3.0 and above are vulnerable to multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities. This includes the ability for privileged users to expose users' previous password hashes -- this vulnerability is particularly dangerous given RT's weak hashing previous to the fix in CVE-2011-0009. A separate vulnerability allows privileged users to obtain correspondence history for any ticket in RT. CVE-2011-2084 is assigned to this vulnerability.

All publicly released versions of RT are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CVE-2011-2085 is assigned to this vulnerability.

We have also added a separate configuration option ($RestrictLoginReferrer) to prevent login CSRF, a different class of CSRF attack.

RT versions 3.6.1 and above are vulnerable to a remote execution of code vulnerability if the optional VERP configuration options ($VERPPrefix and $VERPDomain) are enabled. RT 3.8.0 and higher are vulnerable to a limited remote execution of code which can be leveraged for privilege escalation. RT 4.0.0 and above contain a vulnerability in the global $DisallowExecuteCode option, allowing sufficiently privileged users to still execute code even if RT was configured to not allow it. CVE-2011-4458 is assigned to this set of vulnerabilities.

RT versions 3.0 and above may, under some circumstances, still respect rights that a user only has by way of a currently-disabled group.
CVE-2011-4459 is assigned to this vulnerability.

RT versions 2.0 and above are vulnerable to a SQL injection attack, which allow privileged users to obtain arbitrary information from the database. CVE-2011-4460 is assigned to this vulnerability.

- Bug #672257 - CVE-2011-0009 RT3: Insecure hashing     algorithm used for storage of user passwords     [fedora-all]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that Request Tracker, an issue tracking system, stored passwords in its database by using an insufficiently strong hashing method. If an attacker would have access to the password database, he could decode the passwords stored in it.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
7201	TLS Certificate Signed Using Weak Hashing Algorithm - MD5	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic	medium
59283	FreeBSD : RT -- Multiple Vulnerabilities (e0a969e4-a512-11e1-90b4-e0cb4e266481)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
52518	Fedora 15 : rt3-3.8.9-1.fc15 (2011-1677)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
51665	Debian DSA-2150-1 : request-tracker3.6 - unsalted password hashing	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2011-0009

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

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medium

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