CVE-2009-5057 The S/MIME feature in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 2.3.4 does not configure the RANDFILE and HOME environment variables for Open
Medium 5.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2009-5057 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2009-5057 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Otrs Otrs, published on 18 Mar 2011.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-5057 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Otrs Otrs. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-5057/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-5057/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2009-5057?
CVE-2009-5057 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Otrs Otrs, published on 18 Mar 2011.
Official description
The S/MIME feature in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 2.3.4 does not configure the RANDFILE and HOME environment variables for OpenSSL, which might make it easier for remote attackers to decrypt e-mail messages that had lower than intended entropy available for cryptographic operations, related to inability to write to the seeding file.
Weakness: CWE-310
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-5057?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Otrs Otrs.
How do I fix CVE-2009-5057?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2009-5057 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-5057 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Otrs Otrs
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5057, GHSA-867g-gm3j-m6qw.