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Nextcloud Talk messages can still be seen on conversation after expiring when cron is misconfigured

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Nextcloud Talk is a fully on-premises audio/video and chat communication service. When cron jobs were misconfigured and therefore messages are not expired, the API would still return them while they were then hidden by the frontend code. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Talk is upgraded to 15.0.3. There are no workaround available.

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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2023-26041
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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3 Nov 2026, 13:56 UTC · Revision 1

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Nextcloud Talk messages can still be seen on conversation after expiring when cron is misconfigured

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Feb 2023, 20:16 UTC

Nextcloud Talk is a fully on-premises audio/video and chat communication service. When cron jobs were misconfigured and therefore messages are not expired, the API would still return them while they were then hidden by the frontend code. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Talk is upgraded to 15.0.3. There are no workaround available.

osv:CVE-2023-26041
Complete source record
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