Cross-site request forgery in OTRS administrative actions
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
OTRS 7.0.x, 8.0.x, 2023.x, 2024.x, 2025.x and 2026.x through 2026.6.x, and ((OTRS)) Community Edition 6.x are affected. Administrative actions do not validate that the user intended the request, which is cross-site request forgery (CWE-352). An unauthenticated remote attacker can make an administrator's browser delete DBUpdate log entries by getting the administrator to visit a malicious web page that triggers the DBUpdateLogCleanUp action.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
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
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) | OTRS | 7.0.x; 8.0.x; 2023.x; 2024.x; 2025.x; 2026.x – 2026.6.x | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) | ((OTRS)) Community Edition | 6.x and later | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- OTRS VendorOTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) Affected 7.0.x; 8.0.x; 2023.x; 2024.x; 2025.x; 2026.x – 2026.6.x Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- ((OTRS)) Community Edition VendorOTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) Affected 6.x and later Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for OTRS or for ((OTRS)) Community Edition.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Timeline
- 2026-10-12 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-78358
- 2026-10-12 Alias added: GHSA-hq7p-2c9c-64hf
- 2026-10-16 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
More OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-70873 Authentication bypass via spoofed Remote-User header in OTRS CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-70866 Insufficient session revocation in OTRS lets old tokens stay valid CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-70864 Path traversal in OTRS SendSupportBundle allows file deletion CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-70865 Unauthenticated disclosure of OTRS Agent Frontend configuration CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2026-70872 Formula injection in OTRS CSV exports CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2026-70868 Duplicate customer identities across backends in OTRS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-78358 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-78358 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hq7p-2c9c-64hf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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