{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37617 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-37617 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-37617 is a high-severity vulnerability in nextcloud security-advisories, published on 18 Aug 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-37617 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-37617 is a high-severity vulnerability in nextcloud security-advisories, published on 18 Aug 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37617 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: nextcloud security-advisories. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37617/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37617/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-37617","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37617/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-37617","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-6q2w-v879-q24v"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Nextcloud Desktop Client","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A malicious user can execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges by placing a malicious Uninstall.exe in a writable directory during installation.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"desktop","vendor":"nextcloud"}],"cvss":{"score":7.3,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-427","name":"Uncontrolled Search Path Element"},{"id":"CWE-426","name":"Untrusted Search Path"}],"description":"The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with a computer. The Nextcloud Desktop Client invokes its uninstaller script when being installed to make sure there are no remnants of previous installations. In versions 3.0.3 through 3.2.4, the Client searches the `Uninstall.exe` file in a folder that can be written by regular users. This could lead to a case where a malicious user creates a malicious `Uninstall.exe`, which would be executed with administrative privileges on the Nextcloud Desktop Client installation. This issue is fixed in Nextcloud Desktop Client version 3.3.0. As a workaround, do not allow untrusted users to create content in the `C:\\` system folder and verify that there is no malicious `C:\\Uninstall.exe` file on the system.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Untrusted Search Path in Nextcloud Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2021-37617","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::printStructure","id":"CVE-2021-37618"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Null pointer dereference in Exiv2::Internal::resolveLens0x8ff","id":"CVE-2021-37616"},"products":["security-advisories"],"published":"2021-08-18","related":[{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Misconfiguration in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-46958","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-09-16"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Code injection in Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8224","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-08-10"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Information disclosure in Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8225","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-09-18"},{"cvss_score":6.9,"headline":"Nextcloud: Lack of authenticity of metadata keys allows a malicious server to gain access to E2EE folders","id":"CVE-2023-28999","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-04"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"Path traversal in Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8227","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-08-21"},{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"Nextcloud Desktop: Initialization vector reuse in E2EE allows malicious server admin to break, manipulate, access files","id":"CVE-2023-28997","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-04"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["nextcloud"]},"summary":"A malicious user can execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges by placing a malicious Uninstall.exe in a writable directory during installation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37617/"}