CVE-2016-6848

medium

Published 2016-12-15 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Open-Xchange OX App Suite before 7.8.2-rev8. API requests can be used to inject, generate and download executable files to the client ("Reflected File Download"). Malicious platform specific (e.g. Microsoft Windows) batch file can be created via a trusted domain without authentication that, if executed by the user, may lead to local code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
open-xchange	open-xchange_appsuite	`{"endIncluding":"7.8.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.