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CVE-2021-41241

Advanced permissions is not respected for subfolders in Nextcloud server

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 20.0.14, 21.0.6, 22.2.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Nextcloud server is a self hosted system designed to provide cloud style services. The groupfolders application for Nextcloud allows sharing a folder with a group of people. In addition, it allows setting "advanced permissions" on subfolders, for example, a user could be granted access to the groupfolder but not specific subfolders. Due to a lacking permission check in affected versions, a user could still access these subfolders by copying the groupfolder to another location. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 20.0.14, 21.0.6 or 22.2.1. Users unable to upgrade should disable the "groupfolders" application in the admin settings.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • nextcloud security-advisories

    fixed in 20.0.14; From 21.0.0 · fixed in 21.0.6; From 22.2.0 · fixed in 22.2.1

References 4

GitHub · nextcloud/security-advisories

GitHub · nextcloud/groupfolders

GitHub · nextcloud/server

security.gentoo.org