CVE-2024-43445
Published: 27 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-43445 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Otrs (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 34.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-40417
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability exists in OTRS and ((OTRS Community Edition)) that fail to set the HTTP response header X-Content-Type-Options to nosniff. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading or inserting content that would be treated as a different MIME type…
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than intended. This issue affects: * OTRS 7.0.X * OTRS 8.0.X * OTRS 2023.X * OTRS 2024.X * ((OTRS)) Community Edition: 6.0.x Products based on the ((OTRS)) Community Edition also very likely to be affected
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.
Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.
Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.
Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.