Vulnerability CVE-2019-18835


Published: 2019-11-08   Modified: 2019-11-11

Description:
Matrix Synapse before 1.5.0 mishandles signature checking on some federation APIs. Events sent over /send_join, /send_leave, and /invite may not be correctly signed, or may not come from the expected servers.

Type:

CWE-347

(Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Matrix -> Synapse 

 References:
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/6262
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.5.0

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