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Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

CVE-2021-41256

Medium
5.8/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

The software imports, requires, or includes executable functionality (such as a library) from a source that is outside of the intended control sphere.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published