Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-41256 - Unspecified vulnerability in Nextcloud News
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
nextcloud news-android is an Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app. In affected versions the Nextcloud News for Android app has a security issue by which a malicious application installed on the same device can send it an arbitrary Intent that gets reflected back, unintentionally giving read and write access to non-exported Content Providers in Nextcloud News for Android. Users should upgrade to version 0.9.9.63 or higher as soon as possible.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/blob/master/security/GHSL-2021-1033_Nextcloud_News_for_Android.md
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/blob/master/security/GHSL-2021-1033_Nextcloud_News_for_Android.md
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/commit/05449cb666059af7de2302df9d5c02997a23df85
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/commit/05449cb666059af7de2302df9d5c02997a23df85
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/security/advisories/GHSA-2q9v-q3cc-h9f3
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/security/advisories/GHSA-2q9v-q3cc-h9f3