Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202011-4
========================================
Severity: High
Date    : 2020-11-03
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-26891
Package : matrix-synapse
Type    : cross-site scripting
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1252

Summary
======
The package matrix-synapse before version 1.21.0-1 is vulnerable to
cross-site scripting.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 1.21.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "matrix-synapse>=1.21.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.21.0.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
A security issue has been found in matrix-synapse before 1.21.0, where
HTML pages served via Synapse were vulnerable to cross-site scripting
(XSS) attacks.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker might be able to spoof content and execute code via a
cross-site scripting attack.

References
=========
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.21.2
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8444
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-26891

ArchLinux: 202011-4: matrix-synapse: cross-site scripting

November 10, 2020

Summary

A security issue has been found in matrix-synapse before 1.21.0, where HTML pages served via Synapse were vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.21.0-1. # pacman -Syu "matrix-synapse>=1.21.0-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.21.0.

References

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.21.2 https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8444 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-26891

Severity
Package : matrix-synapse
Type : cross-site scripting
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1252

Workaround

None.

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