Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-25818 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in Nextcloud Server

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
nextcloud
CWE-307

Summary

Nextcloud server is an open source, personal cloud implementation. In affected versions a malicious user could try to reset the password of another user and then brute force the 62^21 combinations for the password reset token. As of commit `704eb3aa` password reset attempts are now throttled. Note that 62^21 combinations would significant compute resources to brute force. None the less it is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 24.0.10 or 25.0.4. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.