CVE-2023-45149 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in Talk

CWE-307 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts2 documents2 sources

Severity

4.3MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.2%

top 60.42%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Nextcloud Talk Nextcloud Security-advisories

Timeline

PublishedOct 16

Description

Nextcloud talk is a chat module for the Nextcloud server platform. In affected versions brute force protection of public talk conversation passwords can be bypassed, as there was an endpoint validating the conversation password without registering bruteforce attempts. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Talk app is upgraded to 15.0.8, 16.0.6 or 17.1.1. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDnextcloud/talk15.0.0 — 15.0.8+2

▶CVEListV5nextcloud/security-advisories>= 15.0.0, < 15.0.8, >= 16.0.0, < 16.0.6, >= 17.0.0, < 17.1.1+2

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

CVEList

Password of talk conversations can be bruteforced in Nextcloud↗2023-10-16

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