CVE-2026-44231 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 20.07.2026 Updated: 21.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor bestpractical
Product rt
Versions
  • Version < 5.0.10 is affected
  • Version >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor CWE
  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management CWE
  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization CWE