CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9463

Improper Authentication

Published: Mar 28, 2017 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Nextcloud Server before 9.0.54 and 10.0.1 & ownCloud Server before 9.1.2, 9.0.6, and 8.2.9 suffer from SMB User Authentication Bypass. Nextcloud/ownCloud include an optional and not by default enabled SMB authentication component that allows authenticating users against an SMB server. This backend is implemented in a way that tries to connect to a SMB server and if that succeeded consider the user logged-in. The backend did not properly take into account SMB servers that have any kind of anonymous auth configured. This is the default on SMB servers nowadays and allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to an account without valid credentials. Note: The SMB backend is disabled by default and requires manual configuration in the Nextcloud/ownCloud config file. If you have not configured the SMB backend then youre not affected by this vulnerability.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud * 9.0.54 (excluding)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 10.0.0 (including) 10.0.1 (excluding)
Owncloud Owncloud 8.2.0 (including) 8.2.9 (excluding)
Owncloud Owncloud 9.0.0 (including) 9.0.4 (excluding)
Owncloud Owncloud 9.1.0 (including) 9.1.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

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