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Intent URI permissions manipulation

Moderate
David-Development published GHSA-2q9v-q3cc-h9f3 Nov 30, 2021

Package

de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader (Android)

Affected versions

< 0.9.9.63

Patched versions

0.9.9.63

Description

Impact

The Nextcloud News for Android app has a security issue by which a malicious application installed on the same device can send it an arbitrary Intent that gets reflected back, unintentionally giving read and write access to non-exported Content Providers in Nextcloud News for Android.

Patches

Users should upgrade to version 0.9.9.63 or higher as soon as possible.

References

Fix commit: 05449cb.

For more information

Please have a look at the vulnarability report provided by the GitHub Security Lab team here.

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Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2021-41256

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits