GHSA-2hwx-mjrm-v3g8

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2hwx-mjrm-v3g8

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/03/GHSA-2hwx-mjrm-v3g8/GHSA-2hwx-mjrm-v3g8.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2hwx-mjrm-v3g8

Aliases

Published

2021-03-01T19:34:54Z

Modified

2024-09-30T21:33:57.837609Z

Severity

4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Denial of service attack via .well-known lookups

Details

Impact

A malicious homeserver could redirect requests to their .well-known file to a large file. This can lead to a denial of service attack where homeservers will consume significantly more resources when requesting the .well-known file of a malicious homeserver.

This affects any server which accepts federation requests from untrusted servers.

Patches

Issue is resolved by #8950. A bug not affecting the security aspects of this was fixed in #9108.

Workarounds

The federation_domain_whitelist setting can be used to restrict the homeservers communicated with over federation.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-02-26T18:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-03-01T19:03:06Z"
}

References

Affected packages

PyPI / matrix-synapse

Package

Name: matrix-synapse; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:pypi/matrix-synapse

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0.99.0

Fixed

1.25.0

Affected versions

0.*

0.99.0

0.99.1rc1

0.99.1rc2

0.99.1

0.99.1.1

0.99.2rc1

0.99.2

0.99.3rc1

0.99.3

0.99.3.1

0.99.3.2

0.99.4rc1

0.99.4

0.99.5rc1

0.99.5

0.99.5.1

0.99.5.2

1.*

1.0.0rc1

1.0.0rc2

1.0.0rc3

1.0.0

1.1.0rc1

1.1.0rc2

1.1.0

1.2.0rc1

1.2.0rc2

1.2.0

1.2.1

1.3.0rc1

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.4.0rc1

1.4.0rc2

1.4.0

1.4.1rc1

1.4.1

1.5.0rc1

1.5.0rc2

1.5.0

1.5.1

1.6.0rc1

1.6.0rc2

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.7.0rc1

1.7.0rc2

1.7.0

1.7.1

1.7.2

1.7.3

1.8.0rc1

1.8.0

1.9.0.dev1

1.9.0.dev2

1.9.0rc1

1.9.0

1.9.1

1.10.0rc1

1.10.0rc2

1.10.0rc3

1.10.0rc5

1.10.0

1.10.1

1.11.0rc1

1.11.0

1.11.1

1.12.0rc1

1.12.0

1.12.1rc1

1.12.1

1.12.2

1.12.3

1.12.4rc1

1.12.4

1.13.0rc1

1.13.0rc2

1.13.0rc3

1.13.0

1.14.0rc1

1.14.0rc2

1.14.0

1.15.0rc1

1.15.0

1.15.1

1.15.2

1.16.0rc1

1.16.0rc2

1.16.0

1.16.1

1.17.0rc1

1.17.0

1.18.0rc1

1.18.0rc2

1.18.0

1.19.0rc1

1.19.0

1.19.1rc1

1.19.1

1.19.2

1.19.3

1.20.0rc1

1.20.0rc2

1.20.0rc3

1.20.0rc4

1.20.0rc5

1.20.0

1.20.1

1.21.0rc1

1.21.0rc2

1.21.0rc3

1.21.0

1.21.1

1.21.2

1.22.0rc1

1.22.0rc2

1.22.0

1.22.1

1.23.0rc1

1.23.0

1.23.1

1.24.0rc1

1.24.0rc2

1.24.0

1.25.0rc1