Improper access control in Nextcloud Server - CVE-2016-9461
Published: March 28, 2017 / Updated: July 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31432
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9461
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to manipulate data.
Nextcloud Server before 9.0.52 & ownCloud Server before 9.0.4 are not properly verifying edit check permissions on WebDAV copy actions. The WebDAV endpoint was not properly checking the permission on a WebDAV COPY action. This allowed an authenticated attacker with access to a read-only share to put new files in there. It was not possible to modify existing files.
Affected software
Nextcloud Server
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9461
Install update from vendor's website.
Nextcloud Server - update to 9.0.52
External References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97276
- https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/3491400261c1454a9a30d3ec96969573330120cc
- https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/0622e635d97cb17c5e1363e370bb8268cc3d2547
- https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/121a3304a0c37ccda0e1b63ddc528cba9121a36e
- https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/acbbadb71ceee7f01da347f7dcd519beda78cc47
- https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/c0a4b7b3f38ad2eaf506484b3b92ec678cb021c9
- https://hackerone.com/reports/145950
- https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=nc-sa-2016-004
- https://owncloud.org/security/advisory/?id=oc-sa-2016-014