High
Security advisory
A wrong check in Nextcloud Server 19 and prior allowed to perform a denial of service attack when resetting the password for a user.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8295
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A wrong check in Nextcloud Server 19 and prior allowed to perform a denial of service attack when resetting the password for a user.
osv:CVE-2020-8295
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.760247256Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2021-003",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/812754"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-01-26T18:16:08.583+00:00"
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