CVE-2020-26890
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Description
Matrix Synapse before 1.20.0 erroneously permits non-standard NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity JSON values in fields of m.room.member events, allowing remote attackers to execute a denial of service attack against the federation and common Matrix clients. If such a malformed event is accepted into the room's state, the impact is long-lasting and is not fixed by an upgrade to a newer version, requiring the event to be manually redacted instead. Since events are replicated to servers of other room members, the impact is not constrained to the server of the event sender.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-4mp3-385r-v63f
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7YXMMYQP46PYL664JQUXCA3LPBJU7DQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U34DPP4ZLOEDUY2ZCWOHQPU5GA5LYNUQ/
References (3)
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
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