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

Impact 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. Patched The vulnerability has been patched in matrix-appservice-irc 0.35.0...

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-2022-39203 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...