CVE-2020-8183
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it...
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it was given on the initial create API call.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
7.5
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it was given on the initial create API call.
- Record
CVE-2020-8183- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-256, CWE-522
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it was given on the initial create API call.
- Record
CVE-2020-8183- Weakness
- CWE-256
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-29064 No score
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it was given on the initial create API call.
- Record
EUVD-2020-29064- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jg28-fqcj-8vhj
7.5
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it...
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it was given on the initial create API call.
- Record
GHSA-jg28-fqcj-8vhj- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-522
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
7.5
A logic error in Nextcloud Server 19.0.0 caused a plaintext storage of the share password when it was given on the initial create API call.
- Record
CVE-2020-8183- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:1652-1 No score
Security update for nextcloud
This update for nextcloud fixes the following issues:
nextcloud version 20.0.0 fix some security issues:
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NC-SA-2020-037 PIN for passwordless WebAuthm is asked for but not verified
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NC-SA-2020-033 (CVE-2020-8228) Missing rate limit on signup page
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NC-SA-2020-029 (CVE-2020-8233, boo#1177346) Re-Sharing allows increase of privileges
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NC-SA-2020-026 Passowrd of share by mail is not hashed when given on the create share call
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NC-SA-2020-023 Increase random used for encryption
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Update to 19.0.3
- Fix possible leaking scope in Flow (server#22410)
- Combine body-login rules in theming and fix twofactor and guest styling on bright colors (server#22427)
- Show better quota warning for group folders and external storage (server#22442)
- Add php docs build script (server#22448)
- Fix clicks on actions menu of non opaque file rows in acceptance tests (server#22503)
- Fix writing BLOBs to postgres with recent contacts interaction (server#22515)
- Set the mount id before calling storage wrapper (server#22519)
- Fix S3 error handling (server#22521)
- Only disable zip64 if the size is known (server#22537)
- Change free space calculation (server#22553)
- Do not keep the part file if the forbidden exception has no retry set (server#22560)
- Fix app password updating out of bounds (server#22569)
- Use the correct root to determinate the webroot for the resource (server#22579)
- Upgrade icewind/smb to 3.2.7 (server#22581)
- Bump elliptic from 6.4.1 to 6.5.3 (notifications#732)
- Fixes regression that prevented you from toggling the encryption flag (privacy#489)
- Match any non-whitespace character in filesystem pattern (serverinfo#229)
- Catch StorageNotAvailable exceptions (text#1001)
- Harden read only check on public endpoints (text#1017)
- Harden check when using token from memcache (text#1020)
- Sessionid is an int (text#1029)
- Only overwrite Ctrl-f when text is focussed (text#990)
- Set the X-Requested-With header on dav requests (viewer#582)
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Update to 19.0.2
- [stable19] lower minimum search length to 2 characters (server#21782)
- [stable19] Call openssl_pkey_export with $config and log errors. (server#21804)
- [stable19] Improve error reporting on sharing errors (server#21806)
- [stable19] Do not log RequestedRangeNotSatisfiable exceptions in DAV (server#21840)
- [stable19] Fix parsing of language code (server#21857)
- [stable19] fix typo in revokeShare() (server#21876)
- [stable19] Discourage webauthn user interaction (server#21917)
- [stable19] Encryption is ready if master key is enabled (server#21935)
- [stable19] Disable fragile comments tests (server#21939)
- [stable19] Do not double encode the userid in webauthn login (server#21953)
- [stable19] update icewind/smb to 3.2.6 (server#21955)
- [stable19] Respect default share permissions (server#21967)
- [stable19] allow admin to configure the max trashbin size (server#21975)
- [stable19] Fix risky test in twofactor_backupcodes (server#21978)
- [stable19] Fix PHPUnit deprecation warnings (server#21981)
- [stable19] fix moving files from external storage to object store trashbin (server#21983)
- [stable19] Ignore whitespace in sharing by mail (server#21991)
- [stable19] Properly fetch translation for remote wipe confirmation dialog (server#22036)
- [stable19] parse_url returns null in case a parameter is not found (server#22044)
- Bump elliptic from 6.5.2 to 6.5.3 (server#22050)
- [stable19] Correctly remove usergroup shares on removing group members (server#22053)
- [stable19] Fix height to big for iPhone when using many apps (server#22064)
- [stable19] reset the cookie internally in new API when abandoning paged results op (server#22069)
- [stable19] Add Guzzle's InvalidArgumentException (server#22070)
- [stable19] contactsmanager shall limit number of results early (server#22091)
- [stable19] Fix browser freeze on long password input…
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:1652-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11087-1 No score
nextcloud-22.1.1-1.2 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the nextcloud-22.1.1-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11087-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
nextcloudSUSE:Package Hub 12 |
before 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 | 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 |
nextcloudSUSE:Package Hub 15 SP1 |
before 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 | 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 |
nextcloudSUSE:Package Hub 15 SP2 |
before 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 | 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 |
nextcloudopenSUSE:Leap 15.1 |
before 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 | 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 |
nextcloudopenSUSE:Leap 15.2 |
before 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 | 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, products | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-8183 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Hackerone Nextcloud Server, published October 10, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.91%, the 79th percentile. Fixed in nextcloud 20.0.0-bp152.2.3.1.
References
Left out here: the rest of 1 source description. The JSON record has them.