CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-78358

MediumCVSS 4.3
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A CSRF vulnerability was identified in OTRS that allows an unauthenticated attacker to force an authenticated administrator's browser to execute administrative actions, such as DBUpdate log cleanup, without proper ChallengeToken validation. The attack can be performed by embedding a crafted GET request in a malicious web page. Successful exploitation can delete existing DBUpdate log entries, reducing the availability of diagnostic and historical information used for troubleshooting and auditing.

Risk Assessment

The risk to the organization includes loss of integrity of DBUpdate log data, which may hinder incident analysis and auditing. Additionally, other administrative endpoints without ChallengeToken validation may allow unauthorized actions, such as deploying or synchronizing existing configuration, potentially leading to unwanted changes in the environment.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately upgrade OTRS to version 2026.7.X or later, if applicable, and to versions that include fixes for all affected versions (7.0.X, 8.0.X, 2023.X, 2024.X, 2025.X, 2026.X). For ((OTRS)) Community Edition 6.x and earlier, which are vulnerable, consider migrating to a supported version or applying temporary mitigations such as additional authentication mechanisms and request validation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Several administrative actions do not sufficiently validate whether a request was intentionally initiated by the authenticated user. In particular, the DBUpdateLogCleanUp action can be triggered through a GET request without validating a ChallengeToken. An unauthenticated remote attacker can therefore cause the browser of an authenticated administrator to execute the cleanup action by embedding a crafted request in a malicious web page. Successful exploitation can delete existing DBUpdate log entries. This may reduce the availability of diagnostic and historical information used for troubleshooting and auditing. The impact is limited to DBUpdate log entries that exist at the time the forged request is processed. Additional administrative endpoints were identified that do not validate a ChallengeToken. Some of these endpoints can trigger administrative actions such as deploying or synchronizing already existing configuration. They do not allow an attacker to introduce arbitrary new configuration through the CSRF request itself.  Export and read-only endpoints were also identified without ChallengeToken validation. While these endpoints may be triggered through a forged cross-site request, the response content remains subject to the browser's same-origin restrictions and is not automatically exposed to the attacker. Therefore, no direct confidentiality impact has been demonstrated for these endpoints. This issue affects OTRS: * 7.0.X * 8.0.X * 2023.X * 2024.X * 2025.X * 2026.X before 2026.7.X Please note that ((OTRS)) Community Edition 6.x and before are vulnerable. Products based on the ((OTRS)) Community Edition also very likely to be affected

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