CVE-2024-8260
CSIRTS triage
- What
- OPA SMB authentication can be bypassed, allowing unauthenticated access to SMB shares.
- Who is affected
- Opentext OPA deployments exposing SMB access where authentication is required.
- Urgency
- High severity; authentication bypass on SMB access is a critical security failure allowing unauthorized data access.
- Action
- Apply the security patch from Opentext immediately or disable SMB access until patched.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.34% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 27% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- highCVE-2024-8260: OPA SMB Force-Authenticationmsrc · 2026-08-06
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