Medium
Security advisory
A missing rate limit in the Preferred Providers app 1.7.0 allowed an attacker to set the password an uncontrolled amount of times.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8228
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A missing rate limit in the Preferred Providers app 1.7.0 allowed an attacker to set the password an uncontrolled amount of times.
osv:CVE-2020-8228
Complete source record
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"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2020-033",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/922470"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-10-05T14:15:13.67+00:00"
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