CVE-2008-7280: Otrs

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm in PostmasterPOP3.pl in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) before 2.2.7 does not properly handle e-mail messages containing malformed UTF-8 characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (e-mail retrieval outage) via a crafted message.

Affected products

• Otrs Otrs: up to and including 2.2.6; 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.