Matrix-appservice-irc vulnerable to sql injection via roomIds argument

Description

A vulnerability was found in matrix-appservice-irc up to 0.35.1. This vulnerability affects the file src/datastore/postgres/PgDataStore.ts. The manipulation of the argument roomIds leads to sql injection. Upgrading to version 0.36.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 179313a37f06b298150edba3e2b0e5a73c1415e7.

Recommendation

Update the matrix-appservice-irc package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.36.0
• Patched version(s): 0.36.0

References

• GHSA-ffwf-47x2-jpr8
• vuldb.com
• CVE-2022-3971
• CWE-89
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Parse Server vulnerable to SQL Injection via dot-notation sub-key name in `Increment` operation on PostgreSQL - CVE-2026-31871

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matrix-appservice-irc