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1:50pm, 28 November 2023

TLP Rating: Clear

Three critical vulnerabilities affecting ownCloud software

The file-sharing service ownCloud has released security advisories for three critical vulnerabilities. 

The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49103, allows an attacker to access sensitive information such as mail server credentials, ownCloud admin credentials and the licence key via a URL. CERT NZ is aware of this vulnerabilty being actively exploited.

The second flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-49104, allows an attacker to bypass OAuth 2.0 authentication validation.

The third flaw, CVE-2023-49105, allows an unauthenticated attacker to access, modify or delete files. This affects default configurations of ownCloud core library where no signing key is configured. While this requires knowledge of a username that is not considered a difficult barrier to overcome.

UPDATED: 01/12/2023

What's happening

Systems affected

Check each of the following product versions to determine what vulnerabilities you may be affected by:

CVE-2023-49103

  • ownCloud graphapi 0.2.0 to 0.3.0

CVE-2023-49104

  • oauth 2.0 library earlier than, but not including, 0.6.1

CVE-2023-49105

  • ownCloud 10.6.0 to 10.13.0

What to do

Mitigation

We recommend following the vendor's advice for mitigations against these vulnerabilities.

CVE-2023-49103

  • Delete the file GetPhpInfo.php in the following location:

    owncloud/apps/graphapi/vendor/microsoft/microsoft-graph/tests/GetPhpInfo.php

  • Change ownCloud admin password, mail server credentials, database credentials, Object-Store/S3 access-keys.

NOTE: Simply disabling the graphapi application does not eliminate the vulnerability.

CVE-2023-49104

  • ownCloud has recommended hardening the validation code in the oauth2 app.
  • A workaround is to disable the “Allow Subdomains” option.

CVE-2023-49105

  • Update to the latest version of ownCloud Core.
  • Deny the use of pre-signed urls if no signing-key is configured for the owner of the files.

More information

For CVE-2023-49103

For CVE-2023-49104

For CVE-2023-49105

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