Vulnerability · Published Oct 12, 2026 · Assigned by OTRS

CVE-2026-78358Cross-Site Request Forgery in Administrative Actions

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in OTRS from OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Several administrative actions do not sufficiently validate whether a request was intentionally initiated by the authenticated user. In particular, the DBUpdateLogCleanUp action can be triggered through a GET request without validating a ChallengeToken. An unauthenticated remote attacker can therefore cause the browser of an authenticated administrator to execute the cleanup action by embedding a crafted request in a malicious web page. Successful exploitation can delete existing DBUpdate log entries. This may reduce the availability of diagnostic and historical information used for troubleshooting and auditing. The impact is limited to DBUpdate log entries that exist at the time the forged request is processed. Additional administrative endpoints were identified that do not validate a ChallengeToken. Some of these endpoints can trigger administrative actions such as deploying or synchronizing already existing configuration. They do not allow an attacker to introduce arbitrary new configuration through the CSRF request itself.  Export and read-only endpoints were also identified without ChallengeToken validation. While these endpoints may be triggered through a forged cross-site request, the response content remains subject to the browser's same-origin restrictions and is not automatically exposed to the attacker. Therefore, no direct confidentiality impact has been demonstrated for these endpoints. This issue affects OTRS: * 7.0.X * 8.0.X * 2023.X * 2024.X * 2025.X * 2026.X before 2026.7.X Please note that ((OTRS)) Community Edition 6.x and before are vulnerable. Products based on the ((OTRS)) Community Edition also very likely to be affected

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSotrs2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-78358
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSznunyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-78358
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSznunyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-78358
Ubuntu:26.10znunyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-78358

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) OTRS 7.0.x8.0.x2023.x2024.x2025.x2026.x – through 2026.6.x
OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG) ((OTRS)) Community Edition 6.x

Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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