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OTRS Permission Bypass Vulnerability (OSA-2021-20)

🗓️ 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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OTRS Permission Bypass Vulnerability (OSA-2021-20) allows agents to lock a ticket without 'Owner' permission and gain full control

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

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

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117734");
  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:"2021-10-18 14:24:02 +0000 (Mon, 18 Oct 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-10-21 16:45:00 +0000 (Thu, 21 Oct 2021)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-36097");

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

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

  script_name("OTRS Permission Bypass Vulnerability (OSA-2021-20)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_otrs_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("otrs/detected");

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

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Agents are able to lock the ticket without the 'Owner'
  permission. Once the ticket is locked, it could be moved to the queue where the agent has 'rw'
  permissions and gain a full control.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"OTRS version 8.0.x through 8.0.16.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.0.17 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2021-20/");

  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: "8.0", test_version2: "8.0.16")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.0.17", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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17 Jul 2025 00:00Current
4.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score4.7
CVSS 24
CVSS 3.13.5 - 4.3
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