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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLW1oNzQtNG01Zy1mY2p4

Malicious users could abuse Sydent to control the content of invitation emails

Impact

A malicious user could abuse Sydent to send out arbitrary emails from the Sydent email address. This could be used to construct plausible phishing emails, for example.

Patches

Fixed in 4469d1d, 6b405a8, 65a6e91.

Note that these patches include changes to the default email templates. If these templates have been locally modified, they must also be updated.

For more information

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Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 3 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 5.3
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx, CVE-2021-29432
References:

• https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/security/advisories/GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx
• https://pypi.org/project/matrix-sydent/
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29432
• https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/commit/4469d1d42b2b1612b70638224c07e19623039c42
• https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/releases/tag/v2.3.0
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx

Repository: https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages