CVE-2023-41706VulnerabilityPublished 12 Feb 2024Updated 4 Nov 2025

CVE-2023-41706: Open-Xchange OX App Suite · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affects Open-Xchange OX App SuiteSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 08:30 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.5Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 55% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 12 Feb 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Open-Xchange GmbH OX App Suite	Affected =0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Deploy the official patches and updates provided by Open-Xchange GmbH immediately to enforce processing time limits on drive search expressions. 2. Implement application-layer rate limiting on search query requests to prevent abuse by limiting the number of complex queries per user or IP address. 3. Monitor server resource utilization closely, especially CPU and memory usage related to search operations, to detect anomalous spikes indicative of exploitation attempts. 4. Restrict privileges for users who can perform drive searches to the minimum necessary, reducing the attack surface. 5. Consider deploying Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) with custom rules to detect and block unusually complex or repetitive search queries. 6. Conduct regular security assessments and penetration tests focusing on resource exhaustion vectors in OX App Suite deployments. 7. Educate administrators and users about the risks of crafting overly complex search queries and encourage reporting of performance issues promptly. 8. In multi-tenant environments, isolate tenants and apply resource quotas to prevent a single user from impacting overall service availability.

Description

Processing time of drive search expressions now gets monitored, and the related request is terminated if a resource threshold is reached. Availability of OX App Suite could be reduced due to high processing load. Please deploy the provided updates and patch releases. Processing of user-defined drive search expressions is not limited No publicly available exploits are known.

Impact

For European organizations, the primary impact of CVE-2023-41706 is the potential reduction in availability of OX App Suite services. This can disrupt critical business communications, collaboration, and file sharing, affecting productivity and operational continuity. Service providers and enterprises relying on OX App Suite for email and collaboration may experience degraded performance or outages if attackers exploit this vulnerability. Although no direct data breach or integrity compromise is involved, denial of service conditions can indirectly impact business operations and customer trust. The medium severity score reflects that while exploitation requires some privileges, the attack can be launched remotely without user interaction, increasing the risk in multi-tenant or shared hosting environments common in Europe. Organizations in sectors such as finance, government, and telecommunications, which rely heavily on continuous availability, may face significant operational risks. Additionally, the lack of public exploits currently provides a window for proactive mitigation.

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