CVE-2005-3895

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) 1.0.0 through 1.3.2 and 2.0.0 through 2.0.3, when AttachmentDownloadType is set to inline, renders text/html e-mail attachments as HTML in the browser when the queue moderator attempts to download the attachment, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML. NOTE: this particular issue is referred to as XSS by some sources.

Affected products

OTRS AG OTRS: 1.0.0, 1.3.2, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/039001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113272360804853&w=2
http://moritz-naumann.com/adv/0007/otrsmulti/0007.txt
http://otrs.org/advisory/OSA-2005-01-en/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17685/
http://secunia.com/advisories/18101
http://secunia.com/advisories/18887
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/200
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-973
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_30_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21066
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15537/

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