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Malicious Android app could access Shared Preferences of the Nextcloud Android client

Low
LukasReschke published GHSA-25m9-cf6c-qf2c Jun 17, 2021

Package

Nextcloud Android Client

Affected versions

< 3.16.1

Patched versions

3.16.1

Description

Impact

A malicious app on the same device could have gotten access to the shared preferences of the Nextcloud Android application. This required user-interaction as a victim had to initiate the sharing flow and choose the malicious app.

The shared preferences contain some limited private data such as push tokens and the account name.

Patches

It is recommended that the Nextcloud Android App is upgraded to 3.16.1.

Workarounds

None.

References

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Severity

Low

CVE ID

CVE-2021-32695

Weaknesses