GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-v936-j8gp-9q3p Open redirects on some federation and push requests

MEDIUM Published 2021-02-26 Modified 2024-09-24 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-21273
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
matrix-synapse
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-601
Reviewed
2021-02-26

Affected packages

• PyPI matrix-synapse: < 1.25.0 → fixed in 1.25.0

Description

Impact Requests to user provided domains were not restricted to external IP addresses when calculating the key validity for third-party invite events and sending push notifications. This could cause Synapse to make requests to internal infrastructure. The type of request was not controlled by the user, although limited modification of request bodies was possible. For the most thorough protection server administrators should remove the deprecated `federation_ip_range_blacklist` from their settings after upgrading to Synapse v1.25.0 which will result in Synapse using the improved default IP address restrictions. See the new `ip_range_blacklist` and `ip_range_whitelist` settings if more specific control is necessary. Patches Issue is resolved by #8821. Further improvements to protect homeservers by default were made in #8870 and #8954. Workarounds Requests to internal IP addresses could be blocked at the system or network level.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-21273 Synapse is a Matrix reference homeserver written in python (pypi package matrix-synapse). vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness

References