Improper Certificate Validation Affecting nextcloud/desktop package, versions [3.0.0,3.14.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NEXTCLOUDDESKTOP-8383163
  • published17 Nov 2024
  • disclosed15 Nov 2024
  • creditd-xuan

Introduced: 15 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-52510  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nextcloud/desktop to version 3.14.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation in foldermetadata.cpp, which fails to check for a signature being empty on initial request. An attacker can exploit this to bypass signature verification.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1