ownCloud Server before 8.0.10, 8.1.x before 8.1.5, and 8.2.x before 8.2.2 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information…

published 2016-01-08 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2597

cvss: 8.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.5%; EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits: 0; none known

ownCloud Server before 8.0.10, 8.1.x before 8.1.5, and 8.2.x before 8.2.2 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from a directory listing and possibly cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via the force parameter to index.php/apps/files/ajax/scan.php.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1499 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 5.5

owncloud: information disclosure via directory listings

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

syss.de https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2015-062.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

syss.de /fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2015-062.txt
exploit
owncloud.org /security/advisory/?id=oc-sa-2016-002
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /archive/1/537244/100/0/threaded
mailing-list
packetstormsecurity.com /files/135158/ownCloud-8.2.1-8.1.4-8.0.9-Information-Exposure.html
securityfocus.com /archive/1/537556/100/0/threaded
mailing-list

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-1499
NVD CVE-2016-1499

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary