diff --git a/.github/workflows/files-external-s3.yml b/.github/workflows/files-external-s3.yml
index b348f92b90750..bd121a69904e4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/files-external-s3.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/files-external-s3.yml
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -177,6 +178,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/files-external-smb.yml b/.github/workflows/files-external-smb.yml
index b18f96f753f08..7c0356c620489 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/files-external-smb.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/files-external-smb.yml
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, smbclient, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/files-external-webdav.yml b/.github/workflows/files-external-webdav.yml
index e77a9324be421..7927c306d7527 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/files-external-webdav.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/files-external-webdav.yml
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/files-external.yml b/.github/workflows/files-external.yml
index 3434ecc5c17d8..6b20d5f327519 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/files-external.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/files-external.yml
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/object-storage-azure.yml b/.github/workflows/object-storage-azure.yml
index f771ed1ce6e4e..1cdfca45c38b7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/object-storage-azure.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/object-storage-azure.yml
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/object-storage-s3.yml b/.github/workflows/object-storage-s3.yml
index aefdc47762eef..9fc7115205856 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/object-storage-s3.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/object-storage-s3.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/object-storage-swift.yml b/.github/workflows/object-storage-swift.yml
index c7c5f06544952..aed356a8831f2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/object-storage-swift.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/object-storage-swift.yml
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-mariadb.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-mariadb.yml
index ad00336cdff6c..a1c6d3b1a8086 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-mariadb.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-mariadb.yml
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, mysql, pdo_mysql
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml
index f0f1090e355b8..29763ed8ed96a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-memcached.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, memcached, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql-sharding.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql-sharding.yml
index 9b3aa86bfe540..261e8c13aff09 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql-sharding.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql-sharding.yml
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, mysql, pdo_mysql
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql.yml
index 47be8c187be48..2e07ac7bfd3e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-mysql.yml
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, mysql, pdo_mysql
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-oci.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-oci.yml
index 0016bd3edb5c7..c3e56eb6915f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-oci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-oci.yml
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, oci8
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-pgsql.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-pgsql.yml
index d5d3fe2319df3..adb89c80c504f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-pgsql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-pgsql.yml
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, pgsql, pdo_pgsql
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/phpunit-sqlite.yml b/.github/workflows/phpunit-sqlite.yml
index 3dbfec1ccbb37..30e4f7bd805d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/phpunit-sqlite.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/phpunit-sqlite.yml
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ jobs:
           extensions: bz2, ctype, curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, iconv, imagick, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, pcntl, posix, redis, session, simplexml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, zlib, sqlite, pdo_sqlite
           coverage: ${{ matrix.coverage && 'xdebug' || 'none' }}
           ini-file: development
+          ini-values: disable_functions=""
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
diff --git a/tests/phpunit-autotest-external.xml b/tests/phpunit-autotest-external.xml
index d61d6839c2e81..c1d73af63523e 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit-autotest-external.xml
+++ b/tests/phpunit-autotest-external.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 -->
 <phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		 bootstrap="bootstrap.php"
-		 timeoutForSmallTests="900"
-		 timeoutForMediumTests="900"
-		 timeoutForLargeTests="900"
+		 enforceTimeLimit="true"
+		 defaultTimeLimit="300"
+		 timeoutForSmallTests="60"
+		 timeoutForMediumTests="300"
+		 timeoutForLargeTests="600"
 		 cacheDirectory=".phpunit.cache"
 		 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://schema.phpunit.de/10.5/phpunit.xsd">
 	<testsuite name="Nextcloud files external">
diff --git a/tests/phpunit-autotest.xml b/tests/phpunit-autotest.xml
index dde07915e79a5..11dd78dc8095b 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit-autotest.xml
+++ b/tests/phpunit-autotest.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 -->
 <phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 		 bootstrap="bootstrap.php"
-		 timeoutForSmallTests="900"
-		 timeoutForMediumTests="900"
-		 timeoutForLargeTests="900"
+		 enforceTimeLimit="true"
+		 defaultTimeLimit="300"
+		 timeoutForSmallTests="60"
+		 timeoutForMediumTests="300"
+		 timeoutForLargeTests="600"
 		 cacheDirectory=".phpunit.cache"
 		 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://schema.phpunit.de/10.5/phpunit.xsd">
 	<testsuite name="Nextcloud Server">