CVE-2018-16587

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-16587
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-28 00:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-11-21 17:55:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) 4.0.x before 4.0.32, 5.0.x before 5.0.30, and 6.0.x before 6.0.11, an attacker could send a malicious email to an OTRS system. If a user with admin permissions opens it, it causes deletions of arbitrary files that the OTRS web server user has write access to.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Otrs Open Ticket Request System All All All All
Application Otrs Open Ticket Request System All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4317-1 otrs2 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1521-1] otrs2 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Improved AdminSupportDataCollector. · OTRS/otrs@d8cae00 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch
Improved AdminSupportDataCollector. · OTRS/otrs@d9db0c6 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch
Security Advisory 2018-04: Security Update for OTRS Framework - ((OTRS)) Community Edition CONFIRM community.otrs.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Improved AdminSupportDataCollector. · OTRS/otrs@a4a1a01 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch
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