# CVE-2023-26443: SQL injection in OX App Suite

> Attackers can inject SQL syntax into full-text autocomplete searches, potentially causing exceptions or escalating to malicious SQL injection.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Aug 2023
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c2rq-xcq6-frfg

## What is CVE-2023-26443?

CVE-2023-26443 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in OX App Suite, published on 2 Aug 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Full-text autocomplete search allows user-provided SQL syntax to be injected to SQL statements. With existing sanitization in place, this can be abused to trigger benign SQL Exceptions but could potentially be escalated to a malicious SQL injection vulnerability. We now properly encode single quotes for SQL FULLTEXT queries. No publicly available exploits are known.

Weakness: CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-26443?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite Backend.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-26443?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-26443 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-26443 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-26443 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in OX App Suite

- [CVE-2023-26451](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26451/): Weak cryptography in OX App Suite (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-26436](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26436/): Deserialization in OX App Suite (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2023-26428](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26428/): Missing authorization in OX App Suite (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-26431](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26431/): Server-side request forgery in OX App Suite (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2023-26435](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26435/): Server-side request forgery in OX App Suite (medium 5.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-26443 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-26443 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in OX App Suite, published on 2 Aug 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-26443 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: OX App Suite. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26443/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26443/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-26443
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26443
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-26443

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26443/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.