CVE-2020-26257
Denial of service attack via incorrect parameters to federation APIs
02 Description
Denial of service attack via incorrect parameters to federation APIs
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-12-09 18:25Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 15:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-10-01
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 41d940d3a152bf2f3f7aa06d82908fceaf66442f6e1a959aeee947b49dc848c2
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-hxmp-pqch-c8mm
- github.comhttps://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8776
- github.comhttps://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/3ce2f303f15f6ac3dc352298972dc6e04d9b7a8b
- github.comhttps://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/CHANGES.md#synapse-1231-2020-12-09
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-a2172c484dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QR4MMYZKX5N5GYGH4H5LBUUC5TLAFHI7/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-eeb66c2ecehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DBTIU3ZNBFWZ56V4X7JIAD33V5H2GOMC/
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- matrix-synapse Fixed in 1.24.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- matrix-synapse No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS
- matrix-synapse No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS
- matrix-synapse No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.