Information disclosure in Synapse - CVE-2022-39335

 

Information disclosure in Synapse - CVE-2022-39335

Published: August 20, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79748
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-39335
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the Matrix Federation API. A remote homeservers can request the authorization events in a room


Affected software

Synapse
Fedora
rust-pythonize
python-matrix-common
matrix-synapse

How to mitigate CVE-2022-39335

Install updates from vendor's website.

Synapse - update to 1.69.0
rust-pythonize - update to 0.19.0-1.fc37
python-matrix-common - update to 1.3.0-7.fc37
matrix-synapse - addressed in versions 1.63.1-3.fc37, 1.80.0-5.fc37

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