CVE-2017-16921

NameCVE-2017-16921
DescriptionIn OTRS 6.0.x up to and including 6.0.1, OTRS 5.0.x up to and including 5.0.24, and OTRS 4.0.x up to and including 4.0.26, an attacker who is logged into OTRS as an agent can manipulate form parameters (related to PGP) and execute arbitrary shell commands with the permissions of the OTRS or web server user.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1212-1, DSA-4066-1
Debian Bugs883774

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
otrs2 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)3.3.18-1+deb8u15fixed
stretch/non-free (security), stretch/non-free (lts), stretch/non-free5.0.16-1+deb9u6fixed
buster/non-free6.0.16-2fixed
buster/non-free (security)6.0.16-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye/non-free6.0.32-6fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
otrs2sourcewheezy3.3.18-1~deb7u2DLA-1212-1
otrs2sourcejessie3.3.18-1+deb8u3DSA-4066-1
otrs2sourcestretch5.0.16-1+deb9u4DSA-4066-1
otrs2source(unstable)6.0.2-1883774

Notes

https://www.otrs.com/security-advisory-2017-09-security-update-otrs-framework/
https://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13357
OTRS-6: https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/d12797bf1efa6722c2ba9af6d8238446c2903cd1
OTRS-5: https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/d433518d7bd8e9e079af67ef9ea7079cd2f59646
OTRS-4: https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/368bc37f137e6344f4db014ee2e03c38e2fc62d2
OTRS-4: https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/commit/4043ebb2580cd8f87e7758e95bf0d77eea5c82ae

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