CVE-2021-29430 (GCVE-0-2021-29430)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-15 20:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:02
VLAI
Title
Denial of service attack via memory exhaustion
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - {"CWE-20":"Improper Input Validation"}
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
matrix-org sydent Affected: < 2.3.0
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