Vulnerability · Published Jan 27, 2025 · Assigned by OTRS

CVE-2024-43445Missing X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Header Allows MIME Type Sniffing

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity improper input validation in OTRS from OTRS AG. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 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

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
OTRS AG	OTRS	7.0.x8.0.x2023.x2024.x2025.x – before 2025.1.x
OTRS AG	((OTRS)) Community Edition	6.0.x – through 6.0.34

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2025-01/ vendor-advisory