6.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-26257

Published: 09/12/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 356
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix. A malicious or poorly-implemented homeserver can inject malformed events into a room by specifying a different room id in the path of a `/send_join`, `/send_leave`, `/invite` or `/exchange_third_party_invite` request. This can lead to a denial of service in which future events will not be correctly sent to other servers over federation. This affects any server which accepts federation requests from untrusted servers. The Matrix Synapse reference implementation before version 1.23.1 the implementation is vulnerable to this injection attack. Issue is fixed in version 1.23.1. As a workaround homeserver administrators could limit access to the federation API to trusted servers (for example via `federation_domain_whitelist`).

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Vendor Advisories

A security issue was found in matrix-synapse before version 1231 A malicious or poorly-implemented homeserver can inject malformed events into a room by specifying a different room id in the path of a /send_join, /send_leave, /invite or /exchange_third_party_invite request This can lead to a denial of service in which future events will not be ...