Adding a private/unlisted room to a community exposes room metadata in an unauthorised manner.
Impact
Unauthorised users can access the name, avatar, topic and number of members of a room if they know the ID of the room. This vulnerability is limited to homeservers where:
- the vulnerable homeserver is in the room; and
- untrusted users are permitted to create groups (communities).
By default, only homeserver administrators can create groups. However, homeserver administrators can already access this information in the database or using the admin API. As a result, only homeservers where the configuration setting enable_group_creation has been set to true are impacted.
Patches
Server administrators should upgrade to 1.41.1 or higher.
Workarounds
Server administrators can set enable_group_creation to false in their homeserver configuration (this is the default value) to prevent creation of groups by non-administrators.
Administrators that are using a reverse proxy could, with partial loss of group functionality, block the following endpoints:
/_matrix/client/r0/groups/{group_id}/rooms/_matrix/client/unstable/groups/{group_id}/rooms
References
n/a
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, e-mail us at security@matrix.org.
Software afectado
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| Plataforma | Paquete | Versiones vulnerables | Corregida en |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python (PyPI) | matrix-synapse | < 1.41.1 | 1.41.1 |
Referencias
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-jj53-8fmw-f2w2
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.41.1
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/cb35df940a
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXT7ID7DNBRN2TVTETU3SYQHJKEG6PXN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2VHDEPCZ22GJFMZCWA2XZAGPOEV72POF/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39163
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/matrix-synapse/PYSEC-2021-424.yaml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2VHDEPCZ22GJFMZCWA2XZAGPOEV72POF
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXT7ID7DNBRN2TVTETU3SYQHJKEG6PXN
- Vector CVSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N- Debilidad (CWE)
CWE-200- Plataforma
- Python (PyPI)
- Paquete
matrix-synapse- Publicada
- 31.08.2021
- Actualizado
- 11.10.2026 13:19
Fuentes y licencias
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2021-424 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-jj53-8fmw-f2w2 - CC BY 4.0
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