CVE-2008-7278

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% 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-20

Description

The S/MIME feature in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 2.2.5, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-beta1, does not properly configure the RANDFILE environment variable for OpenSSL, which might make it easier for remote attackers to decrypt e-mail messages that had lower than intended entropy available for cryptographic operations, related to inability to write to the seeding file.

Affected products

OTRS AG OTRS: through 2.2.4; 0.5-beta1, 0.5-beta2, 0.5-beta3, 0.5-beta4, 0.5-beta5, 0.5-beta6 (+59)

References

http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2539
http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2844
http://source.otrs.org/viewvc.cgi/otrs/CHANGES?revision=1.1807
http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2539
http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2844
http://source.otrs.org/viewvc.cgi/otrs/CHANGES?revision=1.1807

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