GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-7h5v-85w9-pq6c Denial of service (via resource exhaustion) due to improper input validation in third-party identifier endpoint
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- matrix-synapse
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2021-05-19
Affected packages
• PyPI matrix-synapse: < 1.33.0 → fixed in 1.33.0
Description
Impact
Missing 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.
Patches
The issue is fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9855.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds.
References
n/a
For more information
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Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness