Medium
Security advisory
Nextcloud Server before 9.0.55 and 10.0.2 suffers from a bypass in the quota limitation. Due to not properly sanitizing values provided by the `OC-Total-Length` HTTP header an authenticated adversary may be able to exceed their configured user quota. Thus using more space than allowed by the administrator.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-0887
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Nextcloud Server before 9.0.55 and 10.0.2 suffers from a bypass in the quota limitation. Due to not properly sanitizing values provided by the `OC-Total-Length` HTTP header an authenticated adversary may be able to exceed their configured user quota. Thus using more space than allowed by the administrator.
osv:CVE-2017-0887
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:55.489711317Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://hackerone.com/reports/173622",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2017-04-05T20:59:00.337+00:00"
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