CVE-2008-7277

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 2.3.0-beta4 checks for the rw permission, instead of the configured merge permission, during authorization of merge operations, which might allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by merging two tickets.

Affected products

OTRS AG OTRS: through 2.3.0; 0.5-beta1, 0.5-beta2, 0.5-beta3, 0.5-beta4, 0.5-beta5, 0.5-beta6 (+67)

References

http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3045
http://source.otrs.org/viewvc.cgi/otrs/CHANGES?revision=1.1807
http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3045
http://source.otrs.org/viewvc.cgi/otrs/CHANGES?revision=1.1807

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