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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2021-29433 EUVD-2021-0122GHSA-pw4v-gr34-2553PYSEC-2021-24

Denial of service (via resource exhaustion) due to improper input validation

Published Apr 15, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Sydent is a reference Matrix identity server. In Sydent versions 2.2.0 and prior, sissing input validation of some parameters on the endpoints used to confirm third-party identifiers could cause excessive use of disk space and memory leading to resource exhaustion. A patch for the vulnerability is in version 2.3.0. No workarounds are known to exist.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
matrix-org sydent <= 2.2.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI matrix-sydent < 2.3.0 2.3.0 GHSA-pw4v-gr34-2553

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