Clear text storage of proxy parameters and passwords (NC-SA-2020-031)
10th July 2020
Risk level: Low
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.7 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CWE: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information (CWE-312)
HackerOne report: 685990
Description
A cleartext storage of sensitive information in Nextcloud Desktop Client 2.6.4 gave away information about used proxies and their authentication credentials.
Affected Software
- Nextcloud Desktop < 2.6.5 (CVE-2020-8225)
Action Taken
The error has been fixed.
Resolution
It is recommended that the Nextcloud Desktop Client is upgraded to 2.6.5.
Acknowledgements
The Nextcloud team thanks the following people for their research and responsible disclosure of the above advisory:
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