openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 Google Maps Directions API Lookup ajax/reports.php certificate validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file ajax/reports.php of the component Google Maps Directions API Lookup Handler. This manipulation causes certificate validation. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-48246. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file ajax/reports.php of the component Google Maps Directions API Lookup Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 disables TLS certificate verification in ajax/reports.php by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false (and not setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST) when issuing outbound HTTPS requests for Google Maps Directions API lookups during incident report generation. An attacker positioned on the network path between the server and the remote endpoint can present a forged certificate to intercept, monitor, or modify the request and response, including any API keys or session-bearing data in transit.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-48246 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:ajax/reports.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 3.44.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbff is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-31327). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Ticket Tracking Software

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• openises

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• Tickets

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• 3.44.0
• 3.44.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/openises/tickets/

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