Bug 1212055 (CVE-2023-32683) - VUL-0: CVE-2023-32683: matrix-synapse: URL deny list bypass via oEmbed and image URLs when generating previews
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-32683: matrix-synapse: URL deny list bypass via oEmbed and im...
Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-32683
Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Oliver Kurz
QA Contact: E-mail List
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/368523/
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Reported: 2023-06-06 12:12 UTC by Robert Frohl
Modified: 2023-07-07 10:35 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Frohl 2023-06-06 12:12:01 UTC
Impact

A discovered oEmbed or image URL can bypass the url_preview_url_blacklist setting potentially allowing server side request forgery or bypassing network policies. Impact is limited to IP addresses allowed by the url_preview_ip_range_blacklist setting (by default this only allows public IPs) and by the limited information returned to the client:

- For discovered oEmbed URLs, any non-JSON response or a JSON response which includes non-oEmbed information is discarded.
- For discovered image URLs, any non-image response is discarded.

Systems which have URL preview disabled (via the url_preview_enabled setting) or have not configured a url_preview_url_blacklist are not affected.

Because of the uncommon configuration required, the limited information a malicious user, and the amount of guesses/time the attack would need; the severity is rated as low.


Patches

The issue is fixed by #15601.


Workarounds

The default configuration of the url_preview_ip_range_blacklist should protect against requests being made to internal infrastructure, URL previews of public URLs is expected.

Alternately URL previews could be disabled using the url_preview_enabled setting.

reference:

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.85.0
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-98px-6486-j7qc
Comment 1 OBSbugzilla Bot 2023-07-07 10:35:07 UTC
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This bug (1212055) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1097110 Factory / matrix-synapse