CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-8259

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published: Nov 16, 2020 | Modified: Sep 27, 2022
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Insufficient protection of the server-side encryption keys in Nextcloud Server 19.0.1 allowed an attacker to replace the encryption keys.

Weakness

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nextcloud_server Nextcloud * 20.0.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References