Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Open ISES Tickets versions before 3.44.2 allow a signed-in attacker to manipulate database queries through request-sorting inputs. Successful abuse could expose sensitive ticket data and potentially alter or delete database contents. The supplied CVSS 4.0 score is 7.1, rated high.
Executive priority
Treat this as a high-priority authenticated application vulnerability. Accelerate remediation where Tickets contains sensitive operational or customer information, has many user accounts, or is externally reachable. Investigate suspicious activity while upgrading because successful abuse may not cause service disruption.
Technical view
CVE-2026-48234 is CWE-89 SQL injection in portal/ajax/list_requests.php. The sort and dir GET parameters are concatenated into a SELECT statement's ORDER BY clause without sanitization. Exploitation is network-accessible, low-complexity, requires low privileges, and requires no user interaction.
Likely exposure
Deployments running Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 are potentially exposed when authenticated users can access the affected portal endpoint. The bundle's structured affected-version entry lists version “0” with default status unaffected, conflicting with the narrative range; confirm installed versions against vendor guidance.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not identify active exploitation, and the CVE is not marked as included in KEV. This does not prove exploitation is absent. Abuse requires authenticated access but could significantly compromise confidentiality and affect database integrity.
Researcher notes
The supplied CVSS 4.0 vector indicates network reachability, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, high confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact. The narrative additionally says database contents could be destroyed, which appears inconsistent with the supplied availability metric. No exploit procedure or confirmed exploitation evidence is provided.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Open ISES Tickets to version 3.44.2 or later following vendor release guidance.
- Restrict access to the affected portal endpoint until upgrading is complete.
- Review and minimize user privileges, including the application's database permissions.
- Preserve relevant application, web, authentication, and database logs for investigation.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Open ISES Tickets deployments and confirm their exact installed versions.
- Verify production systems run version 3.44.2 or later.
- Confirm the vendor patch commit or equivalent correction is present in customized installations.
- Review logs for unusual sort or dir parameter activity against the affected endpoint.
- Assess database audit records and ticket data for unauthorized reads or changes.
Public sources used
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CWE-89: Database access and collection lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookupDatabase behavior lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.1 (4.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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SSVC decision data
CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——VulnCheckCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N2.84.2VulnCheckVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 4.0 score
7.1HighVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.1HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Vulnerability timeline
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ADP provider summaries
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/openises/tickets/releases/tag/v3.44.2CVE reference, VulnCheck · release-notes
- https://github.com/openises/tickets/commit/ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbffCVE reference, VulnCheck · patch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/open-ises-tickets-sql-injection-via-portal-ajax-list-requests-php-sort-and-dir-parametersCVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.