CVE-2023-25818
Missing brute force protection on password reset token in Nextcloud Server
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Nextcloud server is an open source, personal cloud implementation. In affected versions a malicious user could try to reset the password of another user and then brute force the 62^21 combinations for the password reset token. As of commit `704eb3aa` password reset attempts are now throttled. Note that 62^21 combinations would significant compute resources to brute force. None the less it is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 24.0.10 or 25.0.4. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 40 days later
· 40 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
nextcloud · security-advisories
- affected >= 24.0.0, < 24.0.10
- affected >= 25.0.0, < 25.0.4
References (3)
- https://github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-v243-x6jc-42mp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/36489 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/36489/commits/704eb3aa6cecc0a646f5cca4290b595f493f9ed3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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