Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package matrix-synapse  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-MATRIXSYNAPSE-1038558
  • published10 Nov 2020
  • disclosed8 Nov 2019

Introduced: 8 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream matrix-synapse package and not the matrix-synapse package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.