CVE-2022-31120
Federated share accepting/declining is not logged in audit log in Nextcloud Server
Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud solution. The audit log is used to get a full trail of the actions which has been incompletely populated. In affected versions federated share events were not properly logged which would allow brute force attacks to go unnoticed. This behavior exacerbates the impact of CVE-2022-31118. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 22.2.7, 23.0.4 or 24.0.0. There are no workarounds available.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
2.1
Federated share accepting/declining is not logged in audit log in Nextcloud Server
Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud solution. The audit log is used to get a full trail of the actions which has been incompletely populated. In affected versions federated share events were not properly logged which would allow brute force attacks to go unnoticed. This behavior exacerbates the impact of CVE-2022-31118. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 22.2.7, 23.0.4 or 24.0.0. There are no workarounds available.
- Record
CVE-2022-31120- CVSS 3.1
- 2.1 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-778
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-52754
2.1
Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud solution. The audit log is used to get a full trail of the actions which has been incompletely populated. In affected versions federated share events were not properly logged which would allow brute force attacks to go unnoticed. This behavior exacerbates the impact of CVE-2022-31118. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 22.2.7, 23.0.4 or 24.0.0. There are no workarounds available.
- Record
EUVD-2022-52754- CVSS 3.1
- 2.1 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
2.1
Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud solution. The audit log is used to get a full trail of the actions which has been incompletely populated. In affected versions federated share events were not properly logged which would allow brute force attacks to go unnoticed. This behavior exacerbates the impact of CVE-2022-31118. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 22.2.7, 23.0.4 or 24.0.0. There are no workarounds available.
- Record
CVE-2022-31120- CVSS 3.1
- 2.1 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - CVSS 3.1
- 2.7 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-778
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
2.1
Federated share accepting/declining is not logged in audit log in Nextcloud Server
Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud solution. The audit log is used to get a full trail of the actions which has been incompletely populated. In affected versions federated share events were not properly logged which would allow brute force attacks to go unnoticed. This behavior exacerbates the impact of CVE-2022-31118. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 22.2.7, 23.0.4 or 24.0.0. There are no workarounds available.
- Record
CVE-2022-31120- CVSS 3.1
- 2.1 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-778
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-31120 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 2.1) in Nextcloud Server, published August 4, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.90%, the 59th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-9qvg-7fwg-722x
github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/31594/commits/1d8bf9a89c6856218802a1d365000a5831be8655
portal.nextcloud.com/article/using-the-audit-log-44.html
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/31xxx/CVE-2022-31120.json
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31120