Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-22915 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Nextcloud server before 19.0.11, 20.0.10, 21.0.2 is vulnerable to brute force attacks due to lack of inclusion of IPv6 subnets in rate-limiting considerations. This could potentially result in an attacker bypassing rate-limit controls such as the Nextcloud brute-force protection.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1154003
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1154003
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AGXGR6HYGQ6MZXISMJEHCOXRGRFRUFMA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AGXGR6HYGQ6MZXISMJEHCOXRGRFRUFMA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L6BO6P6MP2MOWA6PZRXX32PLWPXN5O4S/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L6BO6P6MP2MOWA6PZRXX32PLWPXN5O4S/
- https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2021-009
- https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2021-009