CVE-2020-8296 Information disclosure in Nextcloud Server

What is CVE-2020-8296?

CVE-2020-8296 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 3 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Nextcloud Server prior to 20.0.0 stores passwords in a recoverable format even when external storage is not configured.

Weakness: CWE-521, CWE-257

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8296?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Nextcloud Nextcloud Server.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8296?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8296 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-8296 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8296 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6m9p-3vwc-4p47.