CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-12645 — Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Appsuite security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.8

OX App Suite 7.10.1 to 7.10.3 has improper input validation for rate limits with a crafted User-Agent header, spoofed vacation notices, and /apps/load memory consumption.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2020-08-31
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-307

Affected products

  • open-xchange / open-xchange_appsuite

Matched remediation archetype

Authentication bypass and missing authentication

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Check exposure

  • Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
  • Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
  • Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
  • Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
  • Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.

Authoritative sources

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