CVE-2024-23790 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2024-23790

Missing file type check in avatar picture upload

Vulnerability Description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the upload functionality for user avatars allows functionality misuse due to missing check of filetypes. This issue affects OTRS: from 7.0.X through 7.0.48, from 8.0.X through 8.0.37, from 2023 through 2023.1.1.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Special thanks to Matthias Püschel for reporting these vulnerability.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

OTRS
Vulnerable Versions:
8.0.x, 2023, 7.0.x

Timeline

Official Publish: January 29th, 2024
Last Modified: June 17th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact