Critical
Security advisory
Deleting users with certain names caused system files to be deleted. Risk is higher for systems which allow users to register themselves and have the data directory in the web root. This affects ownCloud/core versions < 10.6.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-28645
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Deleting users with certain names caused system files to be deleted. Risk is higher for systems which allow users to register themselves and have the data directory in the web root. This affects ownCloud/core versions < 10.6.
osv:CVE-2020-28645
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.826081556Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-02-09T19:15:13.697+00:00"
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