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Improper Preservation of Permissions

CVE-2024-22401

Medium
4.1/10

Summary

Nextcloud guests app is a utility to create guest users which can only see files shared with them. In affected versions users could change the allowed list of apps, allowing them to use apps that were not intended to be used. It is recommended that the Guests app is upgraded to 2.4.1, 2.5.1 or 3.0.1. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions

The software does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published