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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2021-41239 EUVD-2021-28293

User enumeration setting not respected in Nextcloud server

Published Mar 8, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Nextcloud server is a self hosted system designed to provide cloud style services. In affected versions the User Status API did not consider the user enumeration settings by the administrator. This allowed a user to enumerate other users on the instance, even when user listings where disabled. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 20.0.14, 21.0.6 or 22.2.1. There are no known workarounds.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nextcloud security-advisories < 20.0.14, >= 21.0.0, < 21.0.6, >= 22.2.0, < 22.2.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 nextcloud 21.0.9-bp153.2.12.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0098-1
SUSE Package Hub 12 nextcloud 21.0.9-37.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0089-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.3 nextcloud 21.0.9-bp153.2.12.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0098-1

Advisories 2

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