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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2022-31152 EUVD-2022-0154GHSA-jhjh-776m-4765PYSEC-2022-262

Synapse vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) due to incorrect application of event authorization rules

Published Sep 2, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver written and maintained by the Matrix.org Foundation. The Matrix specification specifies a list of [event authorization rules](https://spec.matrix.org/v1.2/rooms/v9/#authorization-rules) which must be checked when determining if an event should be accepted into a room. In versions of Synapse up to and including version 1.61.0, some of these rules are not correctly applied. An attacker could craft events which would be accepted by Synapse but not a spec-conformant server, potentially causing divergence in the room state between servers. Administrators of homeservers with federation enabled are advised to upgrade to version 1.62.0 or higher. Federation can be disabled by setting [`federation_domain_whitelist`](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#federation_domain_whitelist) to an empty list (`[]`) as a workaround.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
matrix-org synapse < 1.62.0 —

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 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI matrix-synapse < 1.62.0rc1 1.62.0rc1 GHSA-jhjh-776m-4765
PyPI matrix-synapse < 1.62.0 1.62.0 PYSEC-2022-262

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