In short
- CVE-2021-29431 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting matrix-sydent, sydent (matrix).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 68.0% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 2.3.0 or later.
Description
Impact
Sydent can be induced to send HTTP GET requests to internal systems, due to lack of parameter validation or IP address blacklisting.
It is not possible to exfiltrate data or control request headers, but it might be possible to use the attack to perform an internal port enumeration.
Patches
Fixed in 9e57334, 8936925, 3d531ed, 0f00412
Workarounds
A potential workaround would be to use a firewall to ensure that Sydent cannot reach internal HTTP resources.
For more information
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NVD description
Sydent is a reference Matrix identity server. Sydent can be induced to send HTTP GET requests to internal systems, due to lack of parameter validation or IP address blacklisting. It is not possible to exfiltrate data or control request headers, but it might be possible to use the attack to perform an internal port enumeration. This issue has been addressed in in 9e57334, 8936925, 3d531ed, 0f00412. A potential workaround would be to use a firewall to ensure that Sydent cannot reach internal HTTP resources.
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