CVE-2023-28835: Nextcloud Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nextcloud server is an open source home cloud implementation. In affected versions the generated fallback password when creating a share was using a weak complexity random number generator, so when the sharer did not change it the password could be guessable to an attacker willing to brute force it. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 24.0.10 or 25.0.4. This issue only affects users who do not have a password policy enabled, so enabling a password policy is an effective mitigation for users unable to upgrade.

Affected products

• Nextcloud Nextcloud Server: from 23.0.0, before 23.0.14 (fixed in 23.0.14); from 24.0.0, before 24.0.10 (fixed in 24.0.10); from 25.0.0, before 25.0.4 (fixed in 25.0.4)

Published 2023-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.