CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-61672
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-10-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1287
Description
Synapse is an open source Matrix homeserver implementation. Lack of validation for device keys in Synapse before 1.138.3 and in Synapse 1.139.0 allow an attacker registered on the victim homeserver to degrade federation functionality, unpredictably breaking outbound federation to other homeservers. The issue is patched in Synapse 1.138.3, 1.138.4, 1.139.1, and 1.139.2. Note that even though 1.138.3 and 1.139.1 fix the vulnerability, they inadvertently introduced an unrelated regression. For this reason, the maintainers of Synapse recommend skipping these releases and upgrading straight to 1.138.4 and 1.139.2.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input weakness
References
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/commit/26aaaf9e48fff80cf67a20c691c75d670034b3c1 github.com
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/commit/7069636c2d6d1ef2022287addf3ed8b919ef2740 github.com
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/17097 github.com
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/releases/tag/v1.138.3 github.com
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/releases/tag/v1.139.1 github.com
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-fh66-fcv5-jjfr github.com