CVE-2023-39963Missing password confirmation when creating app passwords
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.27%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 80% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Nextcloud Server provides data storage for Nextcloud, an open source cloud platform. Starting in version 20.0.0 and prior to versions 20.0.14.15, 21.0.9.13, 22.2.10.14, 23.0.12.8, 24.0.12.5, 25.0.9, 26.0.4, and 27.0.1, a missing password confirmation allowed an attacker, after successfully stealing a session from a logged in user, to create app passwords for the victim. Nextcloud server versions 25.0.9, 26.0.4, and 27.0.1 and Nextcloud Enterprise Server versions 20.0.14.15, 21.0.9.13, 22.2.10.14, 23.0.12.9, 24.0.12.5, 25.0.9, 26.0.4, and 27.0.1 contain a patch for this issue. No known workarounds are available.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
nextcloud · security-advisories
- affected >= 20.0.0, < 20.0.14.15
- affected >= 21.0.0, < 21.0.9.13
- affected >= 22.0.0, < 22.2.10.14
- affected >= 23.0.0, < 23.0.12.9
- affected >= 24.0.0, < 24.0.12.5
- affected >= 25.0.0, < 25.0.9
- affected >= 26.0.0, < 26.0.4
- affected >= 27.0.0, < 27.0.1
References
References3
- https://github.com/nextcloud/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-j4qm-5q5x-54m5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/39416 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2067572 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-43660 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-39963)Record last updated .