CVE-2022-31052
URL previews can crash Synapse media repositories or Synapse monoliths
In short
URL previews in Synapse can crash the server when processing certain web pages due to unlimited recursion. This affects chat servers that have URL preview features enabled, and can be triggered by malicious users or remote URLs.
Technical detail
Unbounded recursion in URL preview processing (CWE-674) allows authenticated local users or remote users (via automatic client requests) to exhaust stack space in Synapse, causing denial of service through either process crash or error handling. The vulnerability requires `url_preview_enabled: true` in configuration and affects versions prior to 1.61.1.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Synapse is an open source home server implementation for the Matrix chat network. In versions prior to 1.61.1 URL previews of some web pages can exhaust the available stack space for the Synapse process due to unbounded recursion. This is sometimes recoverable and leads to an error for the request causing the problem, but in other cases the Synapse process may crash altogether. It is possible to exploit this maliciously, either by malicious users on the homeserver, or by remote users sending URLs that a local user's client may automatically request a URL preview for. Remote users are not able to exploit this directly, because the URL preview endpoint is authenticated. Deployments with `url_preview_enabled: false` set in configuration are not affected. Deployments with `url_preview_enabled: true` set in configuration **are** affected. Deployments with no configuration value set for `url_preview_enabled` are not affected, because the default is `false`. Administrators of homeservers with URL previews enabled are advised to upgrade to v1.61.1 or higher. Users unable to upgrade should set `url_preview_enabled` to false.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/fa1308061802ac7b7d20e954ba7372c5ac292333https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-22p3-qrh9-cx32https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7EARKKJZ2W7WUITFDT4EG4NVATFYJQHF/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QGSDQ4YAITCUACAB7SXQZDJIU3IQ4CJD/https://spec.matrix.org/v1.2/client-server-api/#get_matrixmediav3preview_url