CVE-2023-41707
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedProcessing 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceOX App Suite does not impose limits on processing user-defined mail search expressions, allowing attackers to submit computationally expensive search queries that consume excessive server resources and degrade availability. The vulnerability is a classic resource exhaustion issue where unbounded search expression processing can be leveraged to cause denial of service. The fix adds monitoring of search expression processing time with automatic termination of requests that exceed defined resource thresholds.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 7.6.3> 7.6.3, < 7.10.6> 7.10.6, < 8.20= 7.6.3= 7.10.6CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify OX App Suite versionLocate the installed OX App Suite version number, typically found in the application server configuration, package manager output, or by querying the server's version endpoint if availableAffected if The installed version is less than 8.20, or matches exactly 7.6.3 or 7.10.6, indicating it falls within the affected version ranges
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Determine mail search module statusVerify that the mail search functionality is enabled and accessible on the OX App Suite server. This is typically a core component but can be checked via the server's module configuration or admin consoleAffected if Mail search is enabled and accessible, as this is the feature that processes the unbounded user expressions
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Check for resource monitoring configurationInspect the OX App Suite configuration files or admin settings for the presence of resource monitoring thresholds for search expression processing, which is the control introduced by the fixAffected if Resource monitoring limits for search expressions are NOT configured or not present, indicating the vulnerable state without the fix
The environment is affected if OX App Suite version is below 8.20 (or exactly 7.6.3 or 7.10.6) and mail search is enabled without resource monitoring limits configured for search expressions.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor data7.6.37.10.68.20
Deploy the vendor-provided updates and patch releases for OX App Suite to enable resource monitoring and request termination for mail search expressions.
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