CVE-2022-39203 Parsing issue in matrix-org/node-irc leading to room takeovers

matrix-appservice-irc is an open source Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix. Attackers can specify a specific string of characters, which would confuse the bridge into combining an attacker-owned channel and an existing channel, allowing them to grant themselves permissions in the channel. The...

CVE-2022-39202: Improper Privilege Management

matrix-appservice-irc is an open source Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix. The Internet Relay Chat IRC protocol allows you to specify multiple modes in a single mode command. Due to a bug in the underlying matrix-org/node-irc library, affected versions of matrix-appservice-irc perform parsing of such...