CVE-2016-9459

Summary

CVECVE-2016-9459
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerhackerone
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-28 02:59:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
DescriptionNextcloud Server before 9.0.52 & ownCloud Server before 9.0.4 are vulnerable to a log pollution vulnerability potentially leading to a local XSS. The download log functionality in the admin screen is delivering the log in JSON format to the end-user. The file was delivered with an attachment disposition forcing the browser to download the document. However, Firefox running on Microsoft Windows would offer the user to open the data in the browser as an HTML document. Thus any injected data in the log would be executed.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 6.1 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-209 | CWE-79 | CWE-209 Cross-Site Scripting Using MIME Type Mismatch (CWE-209)


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary6.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
2.0[email protected]Primary4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nextcloud Nextcloud Server All All All All
Application Owncloud Owncloud All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na Nextcloud Server OwnCloud Server Nextcloud Server Before 9.0.52 OwnCloud Server Before 9.0.4 affected Nextcloud Server & ownCloud Server Nextcloud Server before 9.0.52 & ownCloud Server before 9.0.4 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[stable8.1] Set content type when downloading log file to force downl… · owncloud/core@044ee07 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
ownCloud and Nextcloud CVE-2016-9459 HTML Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[stable9] Set content type when downloading log file to force downloa… · owncloud/core@efa35d6 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisories – ownCloud af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 owncloud.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
advisory – Nextcloud af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 nextcloud.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
HackerOne af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hackerone.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[stable8.2] Set content type when downloading log file to force downl… · owncloud/core@b7fa2c5 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[stable9] Set content-type to "application/octet-stream" · nextcloud/server@94975af · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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