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CVE-2021-21273GHSA-V936-J8GP-9Q3PPYSEC-2021-131

Open redirects on some federation and push requests

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.25.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Synapse is a Matrix reference homeserver written in python (pypi package matrix-synapse). Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. In Synapse before version 1.25.0, requests to user provided domains were not restricted to external IP addresses when calculating the key validity for third-party invite events and sending push notifications. This could cause Synapse to make requests to internal infrastructure. The type of request was not controlled by the user, although limited modification of request bodies was possible. For the most thorough protection server administrators should remove the deprecated `federation_ip_range_blacklist` from their settings after upgrading to Synapse v1.25.0 which will result in Synapse using the improved default IP address restrictions. See the new `ip_range_blacklist` and `ip_range_whitelist` settings if more specific control is necessary.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • matrix-org synapse

    fixed in 1.25.0

  • matrix-synapsePyPI

    fixed in 1.25.0

References 5

GitHub · matrix-org/synapse

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