CVE-2008-7278: Otrs

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The S/MIME feature in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 2.2.5, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-beta1, does not properly configure the RANDFILE environment variable 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.

Affected products

• Otrs Otrs: up to and including 2.2.4; version 0.5 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; …

Published 2011-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.