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CVE-2016-9460

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-451

Description

Nextcloud Server before 9.0.52 & ownCloud Server before 9.0.4 are vulnerable to a content-spoofing attack in the files app. The location bar in the files app was not verifying the passed parameters. An attacker could craft an invalid link to a fake directory structure and use this to display an attacker-controlled error message to the user.

Affected products

• com.nextcloud.client: through 9.0.51
• Owncloud: through 9.0.3

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97282
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/2da43e3751576bbc838f238a09955c4dcdebee8e
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/8aa0832bd449c44ec300da4189bd8ed4e036140c
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/dea8e29289a1b99d5e889627c2e377887f4f2983
• https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/c92c234059f8b1dc7d53122985ec0d398895a2cf
• https://hackerone.com/reports/145463
• https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=nc-sa-2016-003
• https://owncloud.org/security/advisory/?id=oc-sa-2016-013
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97282
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/2da43e3751576bbc838f238a09955c4dcdebee8e
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/8aa0832bd449c44ec300da4189bd8ed4e036140c
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/commit/dea8e29289a1b99d5e889627c2e377887f4f2983

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