{"id":"CVE-2018-16587","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-16587","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:11:12.684Z","title":"In Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) 4.0.x before 4.0.32, 5.0.x before 5.0.30, and 6.0.x before 6.0.11, an attacker could send a malicious email to an OTRS system.","description":"In Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) 4.0.x before 4.0.32, 5.0.x before 5.0.30, and 6.0.x before 6.0.11, an attacker could send a malicious email to an OTRS system. If a user with admin permissions opens it, it causes deletions of arbitrary files that the OTRS web server user has write access to.","published":"2018-09-28T00:29:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:44:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["otrs/open ticket request system","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01754,"percentile":0.77802,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.75%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://community.otrs.com/security-advisory-2018-04-security-update-for-otrs-framework/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/a4a1a01f84fac7ab032570ee50b660e2ebb15c01","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/d8cae00b0f78c2a07bb10cedb817304139395843","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/d9db0c6a15caafda7689320ecf61777993c33711","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00033.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4317","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://community.otrs.com/security-advisory-2018-04-security-update-for-otrs-framework/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/a4a1a01f84fac7ab032570ee50b660e2ebb15c01","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/d8cae00b0f78c2a07bb10cedb817304139395843","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/d9db0c6a15caafda7689320ecf61777993c33711","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00033.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4317","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16587","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}