CVE-2021-32659

Automatic room upgrade handling can be used maliciously to bridge a room non-consentually

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jun 16, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
May 12, 2021

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Description

Matrix-appservice-bridge is the bridging service for the Matrix communication program's application services. In versions 2.6.0 and earlier, if a bridge has room upgrade handling turned on in the configuration (the `roomUpgradeOpts` key when instantiating a new `Bridge` instance.), any `m.room.tombstone` event it encounters will be used to unbridge the current room and bridge into the target room. However, the target room `m.room.create` event is not checked to verify if the `predecessor` field contains the previous room. This means that any malicious admin of a bridged room can repoint the traffic to a different room without the new room being aware. Versions 2.6.1 and greater are patched. As a workaround, disabling the automatic room upgrade handling can be done by removing the `roomUpgradeOpts` key from the `Bridge` class options.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

ProductVersions
matrix-appservice-bridgematrix-org
  • < 2.6.1Affected

References

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