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Improper Access Control

CVE-2024-52509

Low
3.5/10

Summary

Nextcloud Mail is the mail app for Nextcloud, a self-hosted productivity platform. The Nextcloud mail app incorrectly allowed attaching shared files without download permissions as attachments. This allowed users to send them the files to themselves and then downloading it from their mail clients. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Mail is upgraded to 2.2.10, 3.6.2 or 3.7.2.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published