Medium severity · published Oct 12, 2026
CVE-2026-78359
Duplicate Identity / Identity Shadowing across CustomerUser backends
5.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OTRS does not sufficiently enforce the uniqueness of customer user identities across multiple configured CustomerUser backends. When multiple backends, such as a database and LDAP, are configured, the uniqueness check for customer user email addresses is performed only within the selected backend. As a result, an authenticated user with permission to create or modify customer users may create a customer user whose email address is already assigned to a customer user in another backend.
This can result in multiple customer user records representing the same communication identity. Depending on the affected workflow and backend resolution, customer-related information or email communication may subsequently be associated with or exposed to the wrong customer user.
The vulnerability does not allow unauthenticated users to create customer accounts. Exploitation requires permissions to create or modify customer users.
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 6% 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-2026-78359
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78359
otrs.com
https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2026-16/
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