CVE-2014-2044

high
Published 2014-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in ajax/upload.php in ownCloud before 5.0, when running on Windows, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, upload files with arbitrary names, and execute arbitrary code via an Alternate Data Stream (ADS) syntax in the filename parameter, as demonstrated using .htaccess::$DATA to upload a PHP program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
owncloudowncloud{"endIncluding":"4.5.13"}
owncloudowncloud_server3.0.0
owncloudowncloud_server3.0.1
owncloudowncloud_server3.0.2
owncloudowncloud_server3.0.3
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.0
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.1
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.2
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.3
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.4
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.5
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.6
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.7
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.8
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.9
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.10
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.11
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.12
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.13
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.14
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.15
owncloudowncloud_server4.0.16
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.0
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.1
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.2
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.3
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.4
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.5
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.6
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.7
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.8
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.9
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.10
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.11
owncloudowncloud_server4.5.12

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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