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OTRS 5.0.x < 5.0.39, 6.0.x < 6.0.24, 7.0.x < 7.0.13 DoS Vulnerability

🗓️ 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AGType 
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OTRS Denial of Service Vulnerabilit

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.143236");
  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:"2019-12-09 05:31:00 +0000 (Mon, 09 Dec 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-09-23 15:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 23 Sep 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-18180");

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

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

  script_name("OTRS 5.0.x < 5.0.39, 6.0.x < 6.0.24, 7.0.x < 7.0.13 DoS Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_otrs_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("otrs/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"OTRS is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"OTRS can be put into an endless loop by providing filenames
  with overly long extensions. This applies to the PostMaster (sending in email) and also upload
  (attaching files to mails, for example).");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"OTRS versions 5.0.x through 5.0.38, 6.0.x through 6.0.23 and
  7.0.x through 7.0.12.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.0.39, 6.0.24, 7.0.13 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://community.otrs.com/security-advisory-2019-15-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: "5.0.0", test_version2: "5.0.38")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.0.39", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "6.0.0", test_version2: "6.0.23")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "6.0.24", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "7.0.0", test_version2: "7.0.12")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.0.13", 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 25
CVSS 3.15.3 - 7.5
EPSS0.0192
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