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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2021-41256 EUVD-2021-28301

Intent URI permissions manipulation in nextcloud news-android

Published Nov 30, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

nextcloud news-android is an Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app. In affected versions the Nextcloud News for Android app has a security issue by which a malicious application installed on the same device can send it an arbitrary Intent that gets reflected back, unintentionally giving read and write access to non-exported Content Providers in Nextcloud News for Android. Users should upgrade to version 0.9.9.63 or higher as soon as possible.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nextcloud news-android < 0.9.9.63 —

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