CVE-2026-48241

9.2 criticalEPSS 0.3%

Critical (9.2). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

9.2 critical

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

CVSS 3.1

8.1 high

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-798
Published: 2026-05-21
Modified: 2026-07-23
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/openises/tickets/commit/ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbff
https://github.com/openises/tickets/releases/tag/v3.44.2
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/open-ises-tickets-hardcoded-mysql-credentials-in-loader-php

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