Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-46958

Critical

Published: 16 September 2024

Published
16 September 2024
Modified
13 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.1th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-46958 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Nextcloud Desktop. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Services File Permissions Weakness (T1574.010); ranked at the 35.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Nextcloud Desktop Client 3.13.1 through 3.13.3 on Linux, synchronized files (between the server and client) may become world writable or world readable. This is fixed in 3.13.4.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1574.010 Services File Permissions Weakness Stealth
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the binaries used by services.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability causes synchronized files in Nextcloud Desktop Client on Linux to become world-readable or world-writable, exploiting file system permissions weakness (T1044).

Affected Assets

nextcloud
desktop
3.13.1 — 3.13.4

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References