Synapse denial of service through media disk space consumption
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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EUVD |
EUVD-2024-3424 | Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver. Synapse versions before 1.106 are vulnerable to a disk fill attack, where an unauthenticated adversary can induce Synapse to download and cache large amounts of remote media. The default rate limit strategy is insufficient to mitigate this. This can lead to a denial of service, ranging from further media uploads/downloads failing to completely unavailability of the Synapse process, depending on how Synapse was deployed. Synapse 1.106 introduces a new "leaky bucket" rate limit on remote media downloads to reduce the amount of data a user can request at a time. This does not fully address the issue, but does limit an unauthenticated user's ability to request large amounts of data to be cached. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-4mhg-xv73-xq2x | Synapse denial of service through media disk space consumption |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.596% probability within 30 days)
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| First Time appeared |
Matrix
Matrix synapse |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:matrix:synapse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Matrix
Matrix synapse |
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Element-hq
Element-hq synapse |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:element-hq:synapse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Element-hq
Element-hq synapse |
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| Metrics |
ssvc
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| Description | Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver. Synapse versions before 1.106 are vulnerable to a disk fill attack, where an unauthenticated adversary can induce Synapse to download and cache large amounts of remote media. The default rate limit strategy is insufficient to mitigate this. This can lead to a denial of service, ranging from further media uploads/downloads failing to completely unavailability of the Synapse process, depending on how Synapse was deployed. Synapse 1.106 introduces a new "leaky bucket" rate limit on remote media downloads to reduce the amount of data a user can request at a time. This does not fully address the issue, but does limit an unauthenticated user's ability to request large amounts of data to be cached. | |
| Title | Synapse denial of service through media disk space consumption | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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