Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU72576

Resource exhaustion in Nextcloud Server and Nextcloud Enterprise Server - CVE-2023-25816

Published: February 27, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU72576

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 2.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-25816

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in reset password endpoint. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

Nextcloud Server
Nextcloud Enterprise Server

How to mitigate CVE-2023-25816

Install updates from vendor's website.

Nextcloud Server - update to 25.0.3
Nextcloud Enterprise Server - update to 25.0.3

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