CVE-2016-4028

HIGH

Open-Xchange OX Guard <2.4.0-rev8 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Open-Xchange OX Guard before 2.4.0-rev8. OX Guard uses an authentication token to identify and transfer guest users' credentials. The OX Guard API acts as a padding oracle by responding with different error codes depending on whether the provided token matches the encryption padding. In combination with AES-CBC, this allows attackers to guess the correct padding. Attackers may run brute-forcing attacks on the content of the guest authentication token and discover user credentials. For a practical attack vector, the guest users needs to have logged in, the content of the guest user's "OxReaderID" cookie and the value of the "auth" parameter needs to be known to the attacker.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036154
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538732/100/0/threaded

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 34.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-255
Status published
Products (1)
open-xchange/ox_guard < 2.4.0
Published Dec 15, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026