CVE-2025-23197

matrix-hookshot has a Potential Denial of Service when Hookshot is configured with GitHub support

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jan 27, 2025
Updated
Feb 12, 2025
Reserved
Jan 13, 2025

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Description

matrix-hookshot is a Matrix bot for connecting to external services like GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, and more. When Hookshot 6 version 6.0.1 or below, or Hookshot 5 version 5.4.1 or below, is configured with GitHub support, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) whereby it can crash on restart due to a missing check. The impact is greater to you untrusted users can add their own GitHub organizations to Hookshot in order to connect their room to a repository. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.0.2 and 5.4.2.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
matrix-hookshotmatrix-org
  • >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.2Affected
  • < 5.4.2Affected

References

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