CVE-2022-39264

Summary

CVECVE-2022-39264
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-28 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:50:00 UTC
Descriptionnheko is a desktop client for the Matrix communication application. All versions below 0.10.2 are vulnerable homeservers inserting malicious secrets, which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. Users can upgrade to version 0.10.2 to protect against this issue. As a workaround, one may apply the patch manually, avoid doing verifications of one's own devices, and/or avoid pressing the request button in the settings menu.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287 | CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Nheko-reborn Nheko All All All All
Application Nheko Project Nheko All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secret poisoning using MITM on secret requests by the homeserver · Advisory · Nheko-Reborn/nheko · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Release v0.10.2 · Nheko-Reborn/nheko · GitHub MISC github.com
Prevent the homeserver from inserting malicious secrets · Nheko-Reborn/nheko@67bee15 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: nheko-0.10.2-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: nheko-0.10.2-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: nheko-0.10.2-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: nheko-0.10.2-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182708 Debian Security Update for nheko (CVE-2022-39264)
  • 283185 Fedora Security Update for nheko (FEDORA-2022-1fd94a54a1)
  • 502555 Alpine Linux Security Update for nheko

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