CVE-2026-44231 (GCVE-0-2026-44231)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-20 19:20 – Updated: 2026-07-21 12:46
VLAI
Title
RT: Privilege escalation and information disclosure via REST 2.0 user collection endpoint
Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
bestpractical rt Affected: < 5.0.10
Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3
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