CVE-2010-4759 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.0 Published Updated

Authenticated users can cause a denial of service by triggering a daemon hang via a fulltext search in OTRS.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2010-4759?

CVE-2010-4759 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Otrs Otrs, published on 18 Mar 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 3.0.0-beta7 does not properly restrict the ticket ages that are within the scope of a search, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a fulltext search.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4759?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Otrs Otrs.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4759?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-4759 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4759 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Otrs Otrs vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4759, GHSA-75v7-4jr4-8p3c.

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