Possible denial of service when entering a long password (NC-SA-2020-028)
16th June 2020
Risk level: Low
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
HackerOne report: 840598
Description
Improper check of inputs in Preferred providers app 1.6.0 allowed to perform a denial of service attack when using a very long password.
Affected Software
- Nextcloud Preferred_providers < 1.7.0 (CVE-2020-8202)
Action Taken
The error has been fixed.
Resolution
It is recommended that the Preferred providers app is upgraded to 1.7.0.
Acknowledgements
The Nextcloud team thanks the following people for their research and responsible disclosure of the above advisory:
- Abhishek Raj (araj07810@gmail.com) - Vulnerability discovery and disclosure.
This advisory is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.