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CVE-2021-22906 (GCVE-0-2021-22906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-11 15:49 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:58
VLAI
Summary
Nextcloud End-to-End Encryption before 1.5.3, 1.6.3 and 1.7.1 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability due to permitting any authenticated users to lock files of other users.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 End-to-End Encryption Affected: Fixed in 1.5.3, 1.6.3, 1.7.1
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