CVE-2024-43445 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-43445

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

Vulnerability Description

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

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 Alissa Kim for reporting this vulnerability.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

OTRS, ((OTRS)) Community Edition
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0.x, 8.0.x, 2023.x, 2024.x, 2025.x, 6.0.x

Timeline

Official Publish: January 27th, 2025
Last Modified: February 12th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)