CVE-2016-9466
Publication date 28 March 2017
Last updated 25 August 2025
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
Description
Nextcloud Server before 10.0.1 & ownCloud Server before 9.0.6 and 9.1.2 suffer from Reflected XSS in the Gallery application. The gallery app was not properly sanitizing exception messages from the Nextcloud/ownCloud server. Due to an endpoint where an attacker could influence the error message, this led to a reflected Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| nextcloud | ||
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not in release | |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release | |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release | |
| owncloud | ||
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not in release | |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release | |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release | |
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
|
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Required |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity impact | Low |
| Availability impact | None |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References
Other references
- https://github.com/nextcloud/gallery/commit/f9ef505c1d60c9041e251682e0f6b3daad952d58
- https://github.com/owncloud/gallery/commit/b3b3772fb9bec61ba10d357bef42b676fa474eee
- https://github.com/owncloud/gallery/commit/dc4887f1afcc0cf304f4a0694075c9364298ad8a
- https://hackerone.com/reports/165686
- https://nextcloud.com/security/advisory/?id=nc-sa-2016-009
- https://owncloud.org/security/advisory/?id=oc-sa-2016-019
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9466