CVE-2022-31152CWE-703

Synapse vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) due to incorrect application of event authorization rules

Medium · published September 2, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
67.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver written and maintained by the Matrix.org Foundation. The Matrix specification specifies a list of [event authorization rules](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.2/rooms/v9/#authorization-rules) which must be checked when determining if an event should be accepted into a room. In versions of Synapse up to and including version 1.61.0, some of these rules are not correctly applied. An attacker could craft events which would be accepted by Synapse but not a spec-conformant server, potentially causing divergence in the room state between servers. Administrators of homeservers with federation enabled are advised to upgrade to version 1.62.0 or higher. Federation can be disabled by setting [`federation_domain_whitelist`](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#federation_domain_whitelist) to an empty list (`[]`) as a workaround.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01177 · 67.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-703 · Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2022-09-02T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 SEP 20:00Z
    Synapse vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) due to incorrect application of event authorization rules
    cvelistv5