CVE-2021-41241 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2021-41241

Advanced permissions is not respected for subfolders in Nextcloud server

4.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Nextcloud server is a self hosted system designed to provide cloud style services. The groupfolders application for Nextcloud allows sharing a folder with a group of people. In addition, it allows setting "advanced permissions" on subfolders, for example, a user could be granted access to the groupfolder but not specific subfolders. Due to a lacking permission check in affected versions, a user could still access these subfolders by copying the groupfolder to another location. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 20.0.14, 21.0.6 or 22.2.1. Users unable to upgrade should disable the "groupfolders" application in the admin settings.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

nextcloud

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Affected Software

security-advisories

Vulnerable Versions:

< 20.0.14, >= 21.0.0, < 21.0.6, >= 22.2.0, < 22.2.1

Timeline

Official Publish: March 8th, 2022

Last Modified: April 23rd, 2025

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Privilege Escalation

T1021 Remote Services

Lateral Movement

T1098 Account Manipulation

Defense Evasion