VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-3525

high
Published 2013-05-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Approvals/ in Request Tracker (RT) 4.0.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the ShowPending parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "We were unable to replicate it, and the individual that reported it retracted their report," and "we had verified that the claimed exploit did not function according to the author's claims.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38459 webapps php verified
cheki · 2013-04-11

Request Tracker - 'ShowPending' SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
bestpracticalrequest_tracker{"endIncluding":"4.0.9"}
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.6.8
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.6.10
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.6.11
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.3
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.4
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.7
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.9
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.10
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.11
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.12
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.13
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.14
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.15
bestpracticalrequest_tracker3.8.16
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.0
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.1
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.2
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.3
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.4
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.5
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.6
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.7
bestpracticalrequest_tracker4.0.8

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.