openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 loader.php hard-coded credentials

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file loader.php. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-48241. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the file loader.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-48241 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1110.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:loader.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-2026-31321). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Ticket Tracking Software

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• openises

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• Tickets

Version

• 3.44.0
• 3.44.1

License

• open-source

Website

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

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