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GHSA-v936-j8gp-9q3p

GitHub Security Advisory

Open redirects on some federation and push requests

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
Requests to user provided domains were not restricted to external IP addresses when calculating the key validity for third-party invite events and sending push notifications. This could cause Synapse to make requests to internal infrastructure. The type of request was not controlled by the user, although limited modification of request bodies was possible.

For the most thorough protection server administrators should remove the deprecated `federation_ip_range_blacklist` from their settings after upgrading to Synapse v1.25.0 which will result in Synapse using the improved default IP address restrictions. See the new `ip_range_blacklist` and `ip_range_whitelist` settings if more specific control is necessary.

### Patches
Issue is resolved by #8821. Further improvements to protect homeservers by default were made in #8870 and #8954.

### Workarounds
Requests to internal IP addresses could be blocked at the system or network level.

Affected Packages

PyPI matrix-synapse
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.25.0)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-v936-j8gp-9q3p
Published
February 26, 2021 5:28 PM
Last Modified
September 24, 2024 3:35 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
PyPI
Primary Package
matrix-synapse
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 15, 2025 6:32 AM

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