CVE-2021-32728

Summary

CVECVE-2021-32728
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-18 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-04 14:14:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with a computer. Clients using the Nextcloud end-to-end encryption feature download the public and private key via an API endpoint. In versions prior to 3.3.0, the Nextcloud Desktop client fails to check if a private key belongs to previously downloaded public certificate. If the Nextcloud instance serves a malicious public key, the data would be encrypted for this key and thus could be accessible to a malicious actor. This issue is fixed in Nextcloud Desktop Client version 3.3.0. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Nextcloud Desktop All All All All
Application Nextcloud Nextcloud All All All All
Application Nextcloud Nextcloud Server All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4974-1 nextcloud-desktop DEBIAN www.debian.org
check e2ee public key against private one by mgallien · Pull Request #3338 · nextcloud/desktop · GitHub MISC github.com
End-to-end encryption device setup did not verify public key · Advisory · nextcloud/security-advisories · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178799 Debian Security Update for nextcloud-desktop (DSA 4974-1)
  • 183383 Debian Security Update for nextcloud-desktop (CVE-2021-32728)

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