Medium
Security advisory
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a privilege escalation allowing malicious users to reshare with higher permissions than they got assigned themselves.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8223
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a privilege escalation allowing malicious users to reshare with higher permissions than they got assigned themselves.
osv:CVE-2020-8223
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KC6HLX5SG4PZO6Y54D2LFJ4ATG76BKOP/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T7FX3O6SJE2S52I2HAA4DSTUIISP5BNA/",
"https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2020-029",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/889243"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439521,
"published_at": "2020-10-05T14:15:13.623+00:00"
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