Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-44231

CVE-2026-44231

bestpractical rt — RT: Privilege escalation and information disclosure via REST 2.0 user collection endpoint

Description · from the CVE record

RT is an open source, enterprise-grade issue and ticket tracking system. Versions prior to 5.0.10, 6.0.0 and above, prior to 6.0.3 contain an information disclosure and privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST 2.0 API. A privileged (non-administrative) user can obtain authentication credentials belonging to other users — including users with administrative privileges — and use those credentials to read data as those users via RT's feed endpoints. The same request that exposes the credentials also rotates them, invalidating previously-distributed feed URLs across the instance. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.0.10 and 6.0.3.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
rt< 5.0.10–CNA
rt>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

refgithub.com/bestpractical/rt/security/advisories/GHSA-7rx2-x357-wv74refgithub.com/bestpractical/rt/releases/tag/rt-6.0.3