🛡️ CVE-2024-22401 — guests

🟡 CVSS 4.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-281 NVD
4.1
CVSS Score
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Description

Nextcloud guests app is a utility to create guest users which can only see files shared with them. In affected versions users could change the allowed list of apps, allowing them to use apps that were not intended to be used. It is recommended that the Guests app is upgraded to 2.4.1, 2.5.1 or 3.0.1. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-22401 is classified as CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions. Permissions are not carried over correctly during an operation such as copy or restore, widening access.

Affected software

CVE-2024-22401 is recorded against 1 package.

  • guests

Timeline and source

Published on 18 January 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-281
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-01-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
guests — —

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