CVE-2019-18835

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Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Matrix Synapse before 1.5.0 mishandles signature checking on some federation APIs. Events sent over /send_join, /send_leave, and /invite may not be correctly signed, or may not come from the expected servers.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
sid	Fixed	`1.5.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.5.0-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	matrix-synapse	`<1.5.0`	`1.5.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.