CVE-2023-41705 Denial of service in OX App Suite
Attackers can cause denial of service in OX App Suite by sending excessive DAV user-agent strings, requiring patching to mitigate resource exhaustion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-41705?
CVE-2023-41705 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite, published on 12 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Processing of user-defined DAV user-agent strings is not limited. Availability of OX App Suite could be reduced due to high processing load. Please deploy the provided updates and patch releases. Processing time of DAV user-agents now gets monitored, and the related request is terminated if a resource threshold is reached. No publicly available exploits are known.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-41705?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite.
How do I fix CVE-2023-41705?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-41705 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2023-41705 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-41705 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite
Sources
Also known as GHSA-982m-cqw9-rvqf.