High memory usage in Nextcloud server

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24741",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "High memory usage in Nextcloud server",
    "summary": "Nextcloud server is an open source, self hosted cloud style services platform. In affected versions an attacker can cause a denial of service by uploading specially crafted files which will cause the server to allocate too much memory / CPU. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 21.0.8 , 22.2.4 or 23.0.1. Users unable to upgrade should disable preview generation with the `'enable_previews'` config flag.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-24741",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
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                        "introduced": "21.0.0"
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                        "fixed": "21.0.8"
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          "versions": [
            "23.0.0",
            "v21.0.8rc3",
            "v22.2.4rc3",
            "v21.0.8rc2",
            "v22.2.4rc2",
            "v21.0.8rc1",
            "v22.2.4rc1",
            "v23.0.0",
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            "v22.2.3",
            "v22.2.2",
            "v21.0.6",
            "v22.2.1",
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            "v21.0.6rc1",
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            "v21.0.5rc1",
            "v22.2.0rc2",
            "v22.1.1",
            "v22.1.1rc2",
            "v22.1.1rc1",
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            "v21.0.2",
            "v21.0.2RC1",
            "v21.0.1",
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-24741.json"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:52.326893094Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/1261225",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24741.json",
        "https://github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-jf3h-xf4q-mh89",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24741",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-17",
        "https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/30291"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521124,
  "published_at": "2022-03-09T21:30:13+00:00"
}