GHSA-qcvh-p9jq-wp8v

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcvh-p9jq-wp8v

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/10/GHSA-qcvh-p9jq-wp8v/GHSA-qcvh-p9jq-wp8v.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-qcvh-p9jq-wp8v

Aliases

CVE-2024-47824

Published

2024-10-15T18:11:51Z

Modified

2024-10-16T02:27:29.688260Z

Severity

0.0 (None) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Malicious homeservers can steal message keys when the matrix-react-sdk user invites another user to a room

Details

Impact

matrix-react-sdk before 3.102.0 allows a malicious homeserver to potentially steal message keys for a room when a user invites another user to that room, via injection of a malicious device controlled by the homeserver. This is possible because matrix-react-sdk before 3.102.0 shared historical message keys on invite.

Patches

matrix-react-sdk 3.102.0 disables sharing message keys on invite by removing calls to the vulnerable functionality.

Workarounds

None.

References

The vulnerability in matrix-react-sdk is caused by calling MatrixClient.sendSharedHistoryKeys in matrix-js-sdk, which is inherently vulnerable to this sort of attack. This matrix-js-sdk vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-47080 / GHSA-4jf8-g8wp-cx7c. Given that this functionality is not specific to sharing message keys on invite, is optional, has to be explicitly called by the caller and has been independently patched in matrix-react-sdk by removing the offending calls, we believe it is proper to treat the matrix-react-sdk vulnerability as a separate one, with its own advisory and CVE.

The matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk repository has recently been archived and the project was moved to element-hq/matrix-react-sdk. Given that this happened after the first patched release, no releases of the project on element-hq/matrix-react-sdk were ever vulnerable to this vulnerability.

Patching pull request: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/12618.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at security at security at matrix.org.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-10-15T16:15:05Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-200"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-10-15T18:11:51Z"
}

References

Affected packages

npm / matrix-react-sdk

Package

Name: matrix-react-sdk; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/matrix-react-sdk

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

3.18.0

Fixed

3.102.0