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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 16, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024

Automatic room upgrade handling can be used maliciously to bridge a room non-consentually

CVE-2021-32659

Description

Matrix-appservice-bridge is the bridging service for the Matrix communication program's application services. In versions 2.6.0 and earlier, if a bridge has room upgrade handling turned on in the configuration (the roomUpgradeOpts key when instantiating a new Bridge instance.), any m.room.tombstone event it encounters will be used to unbridge the current room and bridge into the target room. However, the target room m.room.create event is not checked to verify if the predecessor field contains the previous room. This means that any malicious admin of a bridged room can repoint the traffic to a different room without the new room being aware. Versions 2.6.1 and greater are patched. As a workaround, disabling the automatic room upgrade handling can be done by removing the roomUpgradeOpts key from the Bridge class options.

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
matrix-appservice-bridgenpm
< 2.6.12.6.1

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