CVE-2026-48187
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.7 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
5.7CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
An uncontrolled allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the e-mail handling in OTRS allows excessive allocation which may lead to the abortion of the webserver.This issue affects OTRS: * 8.0.X * 2023.X * 2024.X * 2025.X * 2026.X before 2026.4.X Please note that ((OTRS)) Community Edition 6.x, OTRS 7.x and products based on the ((OTRS)) Community Edition also very likely to be affected
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.