CVE-2023-25816

nextcloud vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Feb 24, 2023
Updated: Mar 10, 2025
Reserved: Feb 15, 2023

Description

Nextcloud is an Open Source private cloud software. Versions 25.0.0 and above, prior to 25.0.3, are subject to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A user can configure a very long password, consuming more resources on password validation than desired. This issue is patched in 25.0.3 No workaround is available.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
security-advisoriesnextcloud	>= 25.0.0, < 25.0.3Affected

References

https://github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-53q2-cm29-7j83
https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/35965
https://hackerone.com/reports/1820864

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