Security Advisory

External storage app saves password for all users in the database (NC-SA-2021-006)

3rd October 2020

Risk level: Low

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.3 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L)

CWE: Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format (CWE-257)

HackerOne report: 867164

Description

A missing condition in Nextcloud Server 19 and prior caused the external storage app to always store the users password in a recoverable format.

Affected Software

• Nextcloud Server < 20.0.0 (CVE-2020-8296)

Action Taken

The error has been fixed. Incorrectly stored passwords have been automatically cleaned-up from your database.

Resolution

It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 20.0.0.

Acknowledgements

The Nextcloud team thanks the following people for their research and responsible disclosure of the above advisory:

• Anderson Luiz Alves (alacn1@gmail.com) - Vulnerability discovery and disclosure.

This advisory is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.