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CVE-2024-43445: Missing X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Header Allows MIME Type Sniffing
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
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
- OTRS AG OTRS: from 2025.x before 2025.1.x; 7.0.x, 8.0.x, 2023.x, 2024.x — fixed in 2025.1.x
- OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition: from 6.0.x through 6.0.34
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: OTRS AG OTRS 2025.1.x. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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