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Nextcloud Server CVE-2026-82984

| EUVDEUVD-2026-111126 MEDIUM
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-10-27 hackerone
4.3
CVSS 3.0 · Vendor: hackerone
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as any Nextcloud user
  2. Exploit
    Identify team set to 'visible to everyone'
  3. Execution
    Call resources API endpoint directly
  4. Impact
    Enumerate resource names and identifiers

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires (1) a team in the Nextcloud instance explicitly configured with the 'visible to everyone' setting, and (2) the attacker holding a valid authenticated Nextcloud account that is a non-member of that team. The flaw is that the resources API endpoint does not enforce the membership check that the web UI applies, so a direct API call succeeds. Limiting factors: authentication is mandatory (PR:L), only teams set to 'visible to everyone' are affected, and the disclosure is confined to resource existence, names, and identifiers - resource contents remain protected, and there is no integrity or availability impact.

Impact

This is a low-to-moderate priority information-disclosure flaw rather than an urgent threat. The CVSS 3.0 base score is 4.3 (Medium) with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N, meaning it is remotely reachable and low-complexity but requires an authenticated account (PR:L) and only yields low confidentiality impact (C:L, I:N, A:N) - the disclosure is limited to the existence, names, and identifiers of team resources, not their contents. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', consistent with a non-emergency, schedule-the-patch posture. It is NOT in CISA KEV and no EPSS score was supplied, so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation; absence of EPSS/KEV is not itself a risk signal but means probability of exploitation cannot be quantified from this data. A public PoC reference exists (the HackerOne report) but it is not verified as working exploit code. The signals are internally consistent: a genuine but bounded access-control defect that primarily aids reconnaissance against a Nextcloud instance where the attacker already has a login. Note the input Tags label this 'Authentication Bypass', but the description and CWE-284 make clear authentication is intact and only authorization/access control fails - treat it as an authorization bypass.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated Nextcloud user who is not a member of a team configured as 'visible to everyone' bypasses the web UI's membership check by calling the resources API endpoint directly, returning the names and identifiers of that team's internal resources. A public PoC reference exists (HackerOne report #3511955), though it is not verified as working exploit code. The attacker gains metadata for reconnaissance but cannot read the resource contents themselves.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026

Information disclosure in Nextcloud Server 32.x through 33.x lets any authenticated user who is not a member of a team configured as 'visible to everyone' enumerate that team's internal resource names and identifiers by calling the resources API endpoint directly, even though the web UI correctly returns a 'You are not a member of ...' block. The disclosure is limited to the existence, names and identifiers of resources - their contents remain protected - and there is no integrity or availability impact, which is consistent with the assessed CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/C:L/I:N/A:N (4.3). This is a low-to-moderate priority authorization-consistency bug rather than an urgent threat: no CISA KEV listing or public exploit code is confirmed in the available sources, and per the vuln.today decision label it is triaged for handling this month.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released fixed version is identified in the supplied intelligence, so the primary action is to track the Nextcloud security advisories and the upstream fix for the resources API authorization check, then upgrade the server once a patched release in the 32.x/33.x branches is published; consult https://hackerone.com/reports/3511955 and https://vuldb.com/vuln/427435 for updates. Until then, the effective compensating control is to remove the exposure condition: change any team currently set to 'visible to everyone' to a members-only visibility if cross-instance discoverability of that team is not required, which eliminates the unauthenticated-membership metadata enumeration at the cost of losing that team's directory visibility. Where such visibility must be retained, restrict reach to the resources API endpoint at the reverse proxy or WAF for users outside the relevant teams, accepting that this breaks the endpoint for legitimate members unless the rule is carefully scoped, and note that the web UI check alone is not sufficient because the direct API call bypasses it. Because exploitation requires a valid authenticated account, reviewing accounts and tightening who can hold a Nextcloud login reduces the pool of potential enumerators, and reviewing the disclosed identifiers for any follow-on targeted requests is worthwhile given that names and IDs are the only leaked data.

Affected VersionsENISA

Server 32.0.0 ≤33.0.0

Affected Packages

euvd server no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Nextcloud Server ships a Teams collaboration feature whose resources API exposes the objects owned by a team. The root cause is classified as CWE-284 (Improper Access Control): the membership check that the web UI applies when rendering a team page is not enforced at the API layer, so the two access paths disagree and the API route becomes an alternate, unauthorized channel to the same data. The EUVD/CPE data identifies the affected package as cpe:2.3:a:nextcloud:server, i.e. the core server product rather than a standalone app, and exploitation requires a team explicitly set to the 'visible to everyone' visibility mode plus a valid authenticated account that is a non-member of that team - a visibility setting is what makes the team discoverable, but membership is what should gate its resource listing. The flaw yields only metadata disclosure (resource existence, names and identifiers); resource contents, and therefore confidentiality of the underlying documents and objects, are not exposed, and nothing in the available sources indicates a write or denial-of-service path. The precise API route, parameter names and the code-level location of the missing check are not described in the supplied intelligence, and the trigger is only characterized as a direct call to the resources endpoint.

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Severity by source

Vendor (hackerone) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Remote API call (AV:N), low complexity (AC:L), requires any authenticated account so PR:L, no user interaction; only metadata disclosed so C:L, I:N, A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (hackerone).

CVSS VectorVendor: hackerone

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

When a team was configured as "visible to everyone", the web UI correctly blocked non-members from viewing the team ("You are not a member of ..."), but the resources API endpoint could still be called directly, allowing any authenticated non-member to enumerate the team's internal resources and their identifiers.

This does not grant access to the contents of the discovered resources themselves, only their existence, names, and identifiers.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 81% exploitable
Prevalence
High
Nextcloud is a widely deployed self-hosted collaboration/file platform across enterprises and orgs
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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