Improper Certificate Validation Affecting nextcloud/desktop package, versions [3.0.0,3.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NEXTCLOUDDESKTOP-5411368
  • published5 Apr 2023
  • disclosed5 Apr 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29000  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nextcloud/desktop to version 3.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation by trusting that the server will return a certificate that belongs to the keypair of the user, a malicious server could get the desktop client to encrypt files with a key known to the attacker.

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CVSS Scores

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