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CVE-2022-31014 — Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud server

Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud server. Affected versions were found to be vulnerable to SMTP command injection. The impact varies based on which commands are supported by the backend SMTP server. However, the main risk here is that the attacker can then hijack

CVSS
5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.78% (top 26.60%)
CWE
CWE-74, CWE-93
Published
2022-07-05T17:15:12.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-22T17:52:24.302Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

Nextcloud server is an open source personal cloud server. Affected versions were found to be vulnerable to SMTP command injection. The impact varies based on which commands are supported by the backend SMTP server. However, the main risk here is that the attacker can then hijack an already-authenticated SMTP session and run arbitrary SMTP commands as the email user, such as sending emails to…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
nextcloudsecurityadvisories — < 22.2.8, >= 23.0.0, < 23.0.5, >= 24.0.0, < 24.0.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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