Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-23197 EUVD-2025-3141

matrix-hookshot has a Potential Denial of Service when Hookshot is configured with GitHub support

Published Jan 27, 2025 · Updated Feb 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

matrix-hookshot is a Matrix bot for connecting to external services like GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, and more. When Hookshot 6 version 6.0.1 or below, or Hookshot 5 version 5.4.1 or below, is configured with GitHub support, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) whereby it can crash on restart due to a missing check. The impact is greater to you untrusted users can add their own GitHub organizations to Hookshot in order to connect their room to a repository. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.0.2 and 5.4.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
matrix-org matrix-hookshot >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.2, < 5.4.2 —

References