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

Related Issues

• matrix-appservice-irc IRC command injection via admin commands containing newlines - CVE-2023-38690
• matrix-appservice-irc vulnerable to IRC mode parameter confusion - CVE-2022-39202
• Improper handling of multiline messages in node-irc affects matrix-appservice-irc - CVE-2022-29166
• Parsing issue in matrix-org/node-irc leading to room takeovers - CVE-2022-39203

Tags:

npm

matrix-appservice-irc