Medium severity · published Oct 12, 2026
CVE-2026-78358
Cross-Site Request Forgery in Administrative Actions
4.3
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 3% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OC
((OTRS)) Community Edition · OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG)
6.x · source: vendor
OT
OTRS · OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG)
7.0.x; 8.0.x; 2023.x; 2024.x; 2025.x; 2026.x through 2026.6.x · source: vendor
Affected product
OC
((OTRS)) Community Edition
OTRS GmbH (former OTRS AG)
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78358
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78358
otrs.com
https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2026-15/
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