VulnerabilityPublished 5 Dec 2025Updated 9 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-66551: nextcloud security-advisories · Insecure Direct Object Reference

Affects nextcloud security-advisoriesSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.3 Medium : upgrade to 0.8.6 when convenient.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.3Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 16% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 0.8.6

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: High
Availability: Low

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: Low: Performance is reduced or there are interruptions in resource availability. Even if repeated exploitation of the vulnerability is possible, the attacker does not have the ability to completely deny service to legitimate users. The resources in the impacted component are either partially available all of the time, or fully available only some of the time, but overall there is no direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 5 Dec 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade nextcloud/tables to 0.8.6.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
GitHubnextcloud/tables`pkg:github/nextcloud/tables`Other threats	Affected <0.8.6	Fixed in 0.8.6

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AI-suggested

Upgrade Nextcloud Tables to version 0.8.6 or later, or 0.9.3 or later, as these versions contain the fix for this vulnerability.
Conduct an audit of user permissions and roles within Nextcloud to ensure that only trusted users have the ability to create tables or modify table structures.
Implement strict access controls and monitoring on Nextcloud instances to detect unusual table or column modifications.
Use logging and alerting mechanisms to track changes to tables and columns, enabling rapid detection of unauthorized activities.
Educate users about the risks of privilege misuse and enforce strong authentication mechanisms to reduce the risk of account compromise.
If upgrading is not immediately possible, consider restricting the ability to create or modify tables to a minimal set of trusted administrators.
Regularly review Nextcloud security advisories and apply patches promptly to mitigate emerging vulnerabilities.

Description

Nextcloud Tables allows you to create your own tables with individual columns. Prior to 0.8.6 and 0.9.3, a malicious user was able to create their own table and then move a column to a victims table. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.6 and 0.9.3.

Impact

For European organizations, this vulnerability threatens the integrity and availability of data managed within Nextcloud Tables, which is widely used for collaborative document and data management. Unauthorized column movement could lead to data corruption, loss of trust in data accuracy, and disruption of business processes relying on Nextcloud for data collaboration. Organizations handling sensitive or regulated data (e.g., financial, healthcare, or governmental data) may face compliance risks if data integrity is compromised. The vulnerability does not directly expose confidential data but could indirectly affect confidentiality if data corruption leads to improper data exposure or system instability. The ease of exploitation by authenticated users means insider threats or compromised accounts could leverage this flaw. Given Nextcloud's popularity in Europe, especially in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, the impact could be significant in sectors relying on secure data collaboration platforms.

CWE-639Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #24OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.
Architecture and Design
For each and every data access, ensure that the user has sufficient privilege to access the record that is being requested.
Architecture and Design · Implementation
Make sure that the key that is used in the lookup of a specific user's record is not controllable externally by the user or that any tampering can be detected.
Architecture and Design
Use encryption in order to make it more difficult to guess other legitimate values of the key or associate a digital signature with the key so that the server can verify that there has been no tampering.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Access Control (opens in a new tab)
Authorization Testing Automation (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Insecure Direct Object Reference Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V4.1.2 (opens in a new tab)
V4.2.1 (opens in a new tab)
V8.3.8 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 12 Dec 2025, 18:59 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-639

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