OTRS < 4.0.31, 5.x < 5.0.29, 6.x < 6.0.10 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:otrs:otrs";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112347");
  script_version("2025-07-17T05:43:33+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-07-17 05:43:33 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jul 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-08-06 11:16:33 +0200 (Mon, 06 Aug 2018)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-14593");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("OTRS < 4.0.31, 5.x < 5.0.29, 6.x < 6.0.10 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("gb_otrs_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("otrs/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"OTRS is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker who is logged into OTRS as a user may escalate
  their privileges by accessing a specially crafted URL.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"OTRS version 4.x through 4.0.30, 5.x through 5.0.28 and 6.x
  through 6.0.9.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.0.31, 5.0.29, 6.0.10 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://community.otrs.com/security-advisory-2018-03-security-update-for-otrs-framework/");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "4.0.0", test_version2: "4.0.30")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.0.31", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "5.0.0", test_version2: "5.0.28")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.0.29", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "6.0.0", test_version2: "6.0.9")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "6.0.10", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);