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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.7 Medium

CVE-2023-28997

Nextcloud Desktop: Initialization vector reuse in E2EE allows malicious server admin to break, manipulate, access files

Description

The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server. Starting with version 3.0.0 and prior to version 3.6.5, a malicious server administrator can recover and modify the contents of end-to-end encrypted files. Users should upgrade the Nextcloud Desktop client to 3.6.5 to receive a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

nextcloud security-advisories

  • >= 3.0.0, < 3.6.5affected

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