CVE-2020-8117 Information disclosure in Nextcloud Server
Medium 4.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-8117 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2020-8117 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nextcloud Nextcloud Server, published on 4 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8117 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Nextcloud Nextcloud Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8117/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8117/index.md)
Attackers can leak details of non-public events due to improper permission preservation in Nextcloud Server.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-8117?
CVE-2020-8117 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nextcloud Nextcloud Server, published on 4 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper preservation of permissions in Nextcloud Server 14.0.3 causes the event details to be leaked when sharing a non-public event.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8117?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nextcloud Nextcloud Server.
How do I fix CVE-2020-8117?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8117 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-8117 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8117 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-wgxr-73ph-q4xr.