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
                    | Link | Resource | 
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| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538732/100/0/threaded | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036154 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry | 
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538732/100/0/threaded | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036154 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry | 
Configurations
                    History
                    21 Nov 2024, 02:51
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added | 
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| References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538732/100/0/threaded - | |
| References | () http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036154 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | 
Information
                Published : 2016-12-15 06:59
Updated : 2025-04-12 10:46
NVD link : CVE-2016-4028
Mitre link : CVE-2016-4028
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-4028
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Products Affected
                open-xchange
- ox_guard
CWE
                
                    
                        
                        CWE-255
                        
            Credentials Management Errors
