CVE-2017-9286 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the openSUSE packaging of NextCloud. Specifically, the unsafe use of /srv/www/htdocs could allow scripts running as the wwwrun user to escalate privileges to root during a NextCloud package upgrade on openSUSE Leap. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and can be exploited remotely with low privileges and no user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
42.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 11.0.3-3.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:nextcloud:nextcloud_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.