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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2024-43445 json

Missing X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Header Allows MIME Type Sniffing

published 2025-01-27 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-40417

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • OTRS AG OTRS 2025.1.x

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • OTRS AG OTRS
  • OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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