CVE-2021-32688

HIGH

Nextcloud Server <19.0.13, <20.0.11, <21.0.3 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Nextcloud Server is a Nextcloud package that handles data storage. Nextcloud Server supports application specific tokens for authentication purposes. These tokens are supposed to be granted to a specific applications (e.g. DAV sync clients), and can also be configured by the user to not have any filesystem access. Due to a lacking permission check, the tokens were able to change their own permissions in versions prior to 19.0.13, 20.0.11, and 21.0.3. Thus fileystem limited tokens were able to grant themselves access to the filesystem. The issue is patched in versions 19.0.13, 20.0.11, and 21.0.3. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/27000
Permissions Required x_refsource_misc
https://hackerone.com/reports/1193321
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-17

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0311
EPSS Percentile 87.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-552 CWE-285
Status published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
nextcloud/nextcloud_server < 19.0.13
Published Jul 12, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026