🛡️ CVE-2025-61873 on Debian — request-tracker4

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.9, 5.0.9, and 6.0.2 allows CSV Injection via ticket values when TSV export is used.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-61873 as tracked by Debian, for the package request-tracker4. The fix is available in version 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u3; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61873 is classified as CWE-1236: Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File. Exported values are not neutralised, so a spreadsheet may treat them as formulas when opened.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61873 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • request-tracker4 (fixed in 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u3)
  • request-tracker5 (fixed in 5.0.7+dfsg-5)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 January 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2025-61873 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-01-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
request-tracker4 — 4.4.6+dfsg-1.1+deb12u3
request-tracker5 — 5.0.7+dfsg-5

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