CVE-2021-29453 (GCVE-0-2021-29453)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-19 18:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:02
VLAI
Title
Denial of service through memory exhaustion
Summary
matrix-media-repo is an open-source multi-domain media repository for Matrix. Versions 1.2.6 and earlier of matrix-media-repo do not properly handle malicious images which are crafted to be small in file size, but large in complexity. A malicious user could upload a relatively small image in terms of file size, using particular image formats, which expands to have extremely large dimensions during the process of thumbnailing. The server can be exhausted of memory in the process of trying to load the whole image into memory for thumbnailing, leading to denial of service. Version 1.2.7 has a fix for the vulnerability.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - {"CWE-400":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"}
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7814 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
turt2live matrix-media-repo Affected: <= 1.2.6
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