CVE-2023-28997
Nextcloud Desktop: Initialization vector reuse in E2EE allows malicious server admin to break, manipulate, access files
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server. Starting with version 3.0.0 and prior to version 3.6.5, a malicious server administrator can recover and modify the contents of end-to-end encrypted files. Users should upgrade the Nextcloud Desktop client to 3.6.5 to receive a patch. No known workarounds are available.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years 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 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.
Weakness
Affected products
nextcloud · security-advisories
- affected >= 3.0.0, < 3.6.5
References (4)
- https://github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-4p33-rw27-j5fc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/pull/5324 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/report_DanieleCoppola.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00018.html (opens in a new tab)
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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