CVE-2025-23197 (GCVE-0-2025-23197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-27 17:21 – Updated: 2025-02-12 20:41
VLAI
Title
matrix-hookshot has a Potential Denial of Service when Hookshot is configured with GitHub support
Summary
matrix-hookshot is a Matrix bot for connecting to external services like GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, and more. When Hookshot 6 version 6.0.1 or below, or Hookshot 5 version 5.4.1 or below, is configured with GitHub support, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) whereby it can crash on restart due to a missing check. The impact is greater to you untrusted users can add their own GitHub organizations to Hookshot in order to connect their room to a repository. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.0.2 and 5.4.2.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-27 17:41 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7616 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
matrix-org matrix-hookshot Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.2
Affected: < 5.4.2
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