Description
Matrix Synapse before 0.28.1 is prone to a denial of service flaw where malicious events injected with depth = 2^63 - 1 render rooms unusable, related to federation/federation_base.py and handlers/message.py, as exploited in the wild in April 2018.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/05/01/security-update-synapse-0-28-1/
Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/33f469ba19586bbafa0cf2c7d7c35463bdab87eb
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0043
EPSS Percentile
62.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
VulnCheck KEV
2018-05-01
InTheWild.io
2018-06-07
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (2)
matrix/synapse
< 0.28.1
pypi/matrix-synapse
0 - 0.28.1PyPI
Published
May 02, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026