p5-RT-Authen-ExternalAuth -- privilege escalation

Description:

The RT development team reports:

RT::Authen::ExternalAuth 0.10 and below (for all versions of RT) are vulnerable to an escalation of privilege attack where the URL of a RSS feed of the user can be used to acquire a fully logged-in session as that user. CVE-2012-2770 has been assigned to this vulnerability.

Users of RT 3.8.2 and above should upgrade to RT::Authen::ExternalAuth 0.11, which resolves this vulnerability.

References:

• URL: <http://blog.bestpractical.com/2012/07/security-vulnerabilities-in-three-commonly-deployed-rt-extensions.html>
• CVE name CVE-2012-2770

Affects:

• p5-RT-Authen-ExternalAuth <0.11

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