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CVE-2020-8295 (GCVE-0-2020-8295)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-26 17:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:56
VLAI
Summary
A wrong check in Nextcloud Server 19 and prior allowed to perform a denial of service attack when resetting the password for a user.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Nextcloud Server Affected: Fixed in 20.0.0
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