Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting matrix-react-sdk package, versions <3.105.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-MATRIXREACTSDK-7642787
  • published 7 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 6 Aug 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade matrix-react-sdk to version 3.105.1 or higher.

Overview

matrix-react-sdk is a SDK for matrix.org using React

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor via a malicious homeserver, allowing an attacker to change the user's account data and cause the client to enable URL previews in end-to-end encrypted rooms. Exploiting this vulnerability causes any URLs in encrypted messages to be sent to the server.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None