CVE-2023-28997 (GCVE-0-2023-28997)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-04 12:42
Modified
2025-11-03 18:08
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-323 - Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption
Summary
The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server. Starting with version 3.0.0 and prior to version 3.6.5, a malicious server administrator can recover and modify the contents of end-to-end encrypted files. Users should upgrade the Nextcloud Desktop client to 3.6.5 to receive a patch. No known workarounds are available.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nextcloud security-advisories Version: >= 3.0.0, < 3.6.5
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