CVE-2026-48191 PUBLISHED

Wrong Permission Handling in Document Search Article Meta Filters

Assigner: OTRS
Reserved: 21.05.2026 Published: 01.06.2026 Updated: 01.06.2026

An incorrect handling of permissions in STORM powered by OTRS and in OTRS (2026.x and above) Document Search Article Meta Filters modules allows gaining knowledge about number of affected CIs, SLA and services without gaining access to them.

This issue affects OTRS with STORM modules:

7.0.X
8.0.X
2023.X
2024.X
2025.X
2026.X before 2026.4.X

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	OTRS AG
Product	OTRS
Versions	Default: unknown Version 7.0.x is unknown Version 8.0.x is affected Version 2023.x is affected Version 2024.x is affected Version 2025.x is affected affected from 2026.x to 2026.3.x (incl.)

Solutions

Update to OTRS 2026.4.1. or later. Please note that there will be no OTRS 7 patches

References

https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2026-05/

Problem Types

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-54 Query System for Information