CVE-2021-29430

Denial of service attack via memory exhaustion

Published Apr 15, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
Sydent is a reference Matrix identity server. Sydent does not limit the size of requests it receives from HTTP clients. A malicious user could send an HTTP request with a very large body, leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service. Sydent also does not limit response size for requests it makes to remote Matrix homeservers. A malicious homeserver could return a very large response, again leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service. This affects any server which accepts registration requests from untrusted clients. This issue has been patched by releases 89071a1, 0523511, f56eee3. As a workaround request sizes can be limited in an HTTP reverse-proxy. There are no known workarounds for the problem with overlarge responses.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0119 Sydent is a reference Matrix identity server. Sydent does not limit the size of requests it receives from HTTP clients. A malicious user could send an HTTP request with a very large body, leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service. Sydent also does not limit response size for requests it makes to remote Matrix homeservers. A malicious homeserver could return a very large response, again leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service. This affects any server which accepts registration requests from untrusted clients. This issue has been patched by releases 89071a1, 0523511, f56eee3. As a workaround request sizes can be limited in an HTTP reverse-proxy. There are no known workarounds for the problem with overlarge responses.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-wmg4-8cp2-hpg9 Sydent vulnerable to denial of service attack via memory exhaustion
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 10:02 PM
Reserved
Mar 30, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 15, 2021, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:47 AM