CVE-2022-41882

Nextcloud Desktop vulnerable to code injection via malicious link

State
Published
Severity
6.6 Medium
Published
Nov 11, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Sep 30, 2022

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Description

The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with your computer. In version 3.6.0, if a user received a malicious file share and has it synced locally or the virtual filesystem enabled and clicked a nc://open/ link it will open the default editor for the file type of the shared file, which on Windows can also sometimes mean that a file depending on the type, e.g. "vbs", is being executed. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Desktop client is upgraded to version 3.6.1. As a workaround, users can block the Nextcloud Desktop client 3.6.0 by setting the `minimum.supported.desktop.version` system config to `3.6.1` on the server, so new files designed to use this attack vector are not downloaded anymore. Already existing files can still be used. Another workaround would be to enforce shares to be accepted by setting the `sharing.force_share_accept` system config to `true` on the server, so new files designed to use this attack vector are not downloaded anymore. Already existing shares can still be abused.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
security-advisoriesnextcloud
  • = 3.6.0Affected

References

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