GHSA-c7hh-3v6c-fj4qLowCVSS 3.5
matrix-appservice-irc events can be crafted to leak parts of targeted messages from other bridged rooms
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
It was possible to craft an event such that it would leak part of a targeted message event from another bridged room. This required knowing an event ID to target.
Patches
Please upgrade to 1.0.1.
Workarounds
You can set the matrixHandler.eventCacheSize config value to 0 to workaround this bug. However, this may impact performance.
Credits
Discovered and reported by Val Lorentz.
For more information
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🎯 Affected products1
- npm/matrix-appservice-irc:<= 1.0.0
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/security/advisories/GHSA-c7hh-3v6c-fj4q
- https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/commit/8bbd2b69a16cbcbeffdd9b5c973fd89d61498d75
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38700
- https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/releases/tag/1.0.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7hh-3v6c-fj4q