CVE-2023-41707 Denial of service in OX App Suite

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause denial of service in OX App Suite by submitting complex mail search expressions that consume excessive resources.

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-2023-41707?

CVE-2023-41707 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 mail search expressions 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 mail search expressions 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-2023-41707?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite.

How do I fix CVE-2023-41707?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-41707 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-2023-41707 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-41707 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f39x-gx7x-wwfj.

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