Bug 1914205 (CVE-2020-8225)

Summary: CVE-2020-8225 nextcloud: cleartext storage of sensitive information
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: msiddiqu
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Fixed In Version: Nextcloud Desktop Client 2.6.5 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description msiddiqu 2021-01-08 11:06:06 UTC
A cleartext storage of sensitive information in Nextcloud Desktop Client 2.6.4 gave away information about used proxies and their authentication credentials.

References:

https://hackerone.com/reports/685990
https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=NC-SA-2020-031

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2021-01-08 11:06:38 UTC
Created nextcloud-client tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1914207]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1914206]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-01-08 12:27:51 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.