CVE-2021-32659CWE-306

Automatic room upgrade handling can be used maliciously to bridge a room non-consentually

Medium · published June 16, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Matrix-appservice-bridge is the bridging service for the Matrix communication program's application services. In versions 2.6.0 and earlier, if a bridge has room upgrade handling turned on in the configuration (the `roomUpgradeOpts` key when instantiating a new `Bridge` instance.), any `m.room.tombstone` event it encounters will be used to unbridge the current room and bridge into the target room. However, the target room `m.room.create` event is not checked to verify if the `predecessor` field contains the previous room. This means that any malicious admin of a bridged room can repoint the traffic to a different room without the new room being aware. Versions 2.6.1 and greater are patched. As a workaround, disabling the automatic room upgrade handling can be done by removing the `roomUpgradeOpts` key from the `Bridge` class options.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00936 · 60.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Published
2021-06-16T18:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUN 18:45Z
    Automatic room upgrade handling can be used maliciously to bridge a room non-consentually
    cvelistv5