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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2022-31052 EUVD-2022-0153GHSA-22p3-qrh9-cx32PYSEC-2022-224

URL previews can crash Synapse media repositories or Synapse monoliths

Published Jun 28, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Synapse is an open source home server implementation for the Matrix chat network. In versions prior to 1.61.1 URL previews of some web pages can exhaust the available stack space for the Synapse process due to unbounded recursion. This is sometimes recoverable and leads to an error for the request causing the problem, but in other cases the Synapse process may crash altogether. It is possible to exploit this maliciously, either by malicious users on the homeserver, or by remote users sending URLs that a local user's client may automatically request a URL preview for. Remote users are not able to exploit this directly, because the URL preview endpoint is authenticated. Deployments with `url_preview_enabled: false` set in configuration are not affected. Deployments with `url_preview_enabled: true` set in configuration **are** affected. Deployments with no configuration value set for `url_preview_enabled` are not affected, because the default is `false`. Administrators of homeservers with URL previews enabled are advised to upgrade to v1.61.1 or higher. Users unable to upgrade should set `url_preview_enabled` to false.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
matrix-org synapse < 1.61.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS matrix-synapse No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS matrix-synapse No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS matrix-synapse No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed matrix-synapse 1.61.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12160-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 synapse 1.61.1-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI matrix-synapse < 1.61.1 1.61.1 GHSA-22p3-qrh9-cx32

Advisories 1

References