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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MATRIXREACTSDK-7642787
  • published7 Aug 2024
  • disclosed6 Aug 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-42347  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-359  (opens in a new tab)

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