CVE-2026-48241

critical

Description

Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 contains hardcoded MySQL database credentials in loader.php (a public-facing database utility) that are committed to the source repository. Any actor with access to the public source tree (or an unauthenticated attacker with read access to the file on a deployed installation) can read the username, password, and database name and use them to connect to the database if it is reachable from their network.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/open-ises-tickets-hardcoded-mysql-credentials-in-loader-php

https://github.com/openises/tickets/releases/tag/v3.44.2

https://github.com/openises/tickets/commit/ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbff

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-21

Updated: 2026-05-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.2

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Critical