Improper Access Control Affecting matrix-appservice-irc package, versions <0.35.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-MATRIXAPPSERVICEIRC-3022999
  • published 14 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 14 Sep 2022
  • credit Val Lorentz

How to fix?

Upgrade matrix-appservice-irc to version 0.35.0 or higher.

Overview

matrix-appservice-irc is an An IRC Bridge for Matrix

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control due to improper parsing of modes bug in the upstream matrix-org-irc package, which might result in assigning permissions to the wrong user.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

6.3 medium