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CVE-2020-8296

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-257

Description

Nextcloud Server prior to 20.0.0 stores passwords in a recoverable format even when external storage is not configured.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
• Nextcloud Server: before 20.0.0 — fixed in 20.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Nextcloud Server 20.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/17439
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/21037
• https://hackerone.com/reports/867164
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L6BO6P6MP2MOWA6PZRXX32PLWPXN5O4S/
• https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2021-006
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/17439
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/21037
• https://hackerone.com/reports/867164
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L6BO6P6MP2MOWA6PZRXX32PLWPXN5O4S/
• https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2021-006

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