GHSA-6g43-88cp-w5gv

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6g43-88cp-w5gv

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/03/GHSA-6g43-88cp-w5gv/GHSA-6g43-88cp-w5gv.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-6g43-88cp-w5gv

Aliases

CVE-2023-28103

Published

2023-03-29T19:34:25Z

Modified

2023-11-08T04:12:08.436114Z

Severity

8.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Prototype pollution in matrix-react-sdk

Details

Impact

In certain configurations, data sent by remote servers containing special strings in key locations could cause modifications of the Object.prototype, disrupting matrix-react-sdk functionality, causing denial of service and potentially affecting program logic.

(This is part 2, where CVE-2022-36060 / GHSA-2x9c-qwgf-94xr is part 1. Part 2 covers remaining vectors not covered by part 1, found in a codebase audit scheduled after part 1.)

Patches

This is fixed in matrix-react-sdk 3.69.0

Workarounds

None.

References

Release blog post
The advisory GHSA-2x9c-qwgf-94xr (CVE-2022-36060) refers to an initial set of vulnerable locations discovered and patched in matrix-react-sdk 3.53.0. We opted not to disclose that advisory while we performed an audit of the codebase and are now disclosing it jointly with this one.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory please email us at security at matrix.org.

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-29T19:34:25Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-03-28T21:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1321"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

npm / matrix-react-sdk

Package

Name: matrix-react-sdk; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/matrix-react-sdk

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.69.0