CVE-2015-5954

medium
Published 2015-10-21 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

The virtual filesystem in ownCloud Server before 6.0.9, 7.0.x before 7.0.7, and 8.0.x before 8.0.5 does not consider that NULL is a valid getPath return value, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain access to users files via a sharing link to a file with a deleted parent folder.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
owncloudowncloud{"endIncluding":"6.0.8"}
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.0
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.1
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.2
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.3
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.4
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.5
owncloudowncloud_server7.0.6
owncloudowncloud_server8.0.0
owncloudowncloud_server8.0.2
owncloudowncloud_server8.0.3
owncloudowncloud_server8.0.4

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.