CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-16463

Session Fixation

Published: Oct 30, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
3.1
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A bug causing session fixation in Nextcloud Server prior to 14.0.0, 13.0.3 and 12.0.8 could potentially allow an attacker to obtain access to password protected shares.

Weakness

Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud * 12.0.8 (excluding)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 13.0.0 (including) 13.0.3 (excluding)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 14.0.0-beta1 (including) 14.0.0-beta1 (including)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 14.0.0-beta2 (including) 14.0.0-beta2 (including)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 14.0.0-beta3 (including) 14.0.0-beta3 (including)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 14.0.0-beta4 (including) 14.0.0-beta4 (including)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 14.0.0-rc1 (including) 14.0.0-rc1 (including)
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud 14.0.0-rc2 (including) 14.0.0-rc2 (including)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References