CVE-2021-41256

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41256
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-30 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-12-02 18:33:00 UTC
Descriptionnextcloud news-android is an Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app. In affected versions the Nextcloud News for Android app has a security issue by which a malicious application installed on the same device can send it an arbitrary Intent that gets reflected back, unintentionally giving read and write access to non-exported Content Providers in Nextcloud News for Android. Users should upgrade to version 0.9.9.63 or higher as soon as possible.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-829

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nextcloud News All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Intent URI permissions manipulation · Advisory · nextcloud/news-android · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
news-android/GHSL-2021-1033_Nextcloud_News_for_Android.md at master · nextcloud/news-android · GitHub MISC github.com
fix GHSL-2021-1033 · nextcloud/news-android@05449cb · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 630788 Nextcloud News For Android Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
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