CVE-2021-41256

Intent URI permissions manipulation in nextcloud news-android

State
Published
Severity
5.8 Medium
Published
Nov 30, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 15, 2021

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Description

nextcloud news-android is an Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app. In affected versions the Nextcloud News for Android app has a security issue by which a malicious application installed on the same device can send it an arbitrary Intent that gets reflected back, unintentionally giving read and write access to non-exported Content Providers in Nextcloud News for Android. Users should upgrade to version 0.9.9.63 or higher as soon as possible.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Affected Products

ProductVersions
news-androidnextcloud
  • < 0.9.9.63Affected

References

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