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CVE-2020-8228

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-10-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-840

Description

A missing rate limit in the Preferred Providers app 1.7.0 allowed an attacker to set the password an uncontrolled amount of times.

Affected products

• Nextcloud Preferred Providers: 1.7.0
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1, 15.0-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00019.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/922470
• https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2020-033
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00019.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/922470
• https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2020-033

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