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CVE-2022-39200GO-2022-0989GHSA-PFW4-XJGM-267C

Signature checks not applied to some retrieved missing events

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.9.8
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Dendrite is a Matrix homeserver written in Go. In affected versions events retrieved from a remote homeserver using the `/get_missing_events` path did not have their signatures verified correctly. This could potentially allow a remote homeserver to provide invalid/modified events to Dendrite via this endpoint. Note that this does not apply to events retrieved through other endpoints (e.g. `/event`, `/state`) as they have been correctly verified. Homeservers that have federation disabled are not vulnerable. The problem has been fixed in Dendrite 0.9.8. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • matrix-org dendrite

    fixed in 0.9.8

  • github.com/matrix-org/dendriteGo

    fixed in 0.9.8

References 2

GitHub · matrix-org/dendrite