Matrix iOS SDK allows developers to build iOS apps compatible with Matrix. Prior to version 0.23.19, an attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver can construct messages that legitimately appear to have come from another person, without any indication such as a grey shield. Additionally, a sophisticated attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver could employ this vulnerability to perform a targeted attack in order to send fake to-device messages appearing to originate from another user. This can allow, for example, to inject the key backup secret during a self-verification, to make a targeted device start using a malicious key backup spoofed by the homeserver. These attacks are possible due to a protocol confusion vulnerability that accepts to-device messages encrypted with Megolm instead of Olm. matrix-ios-sdk version 0.23.19 has been modified to only accept Olm-encrypted to-device messages. Out of caution, several other checks have been audited or added. This attack requires coordination between a malicious home server and an attacker, so those who trust their home servers do not need a workaround. To avoid malicious backup attacks, one should not verify one's new logins using emoji/QR verifications methods until patched.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-09-28T20:35:10

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:00:43.331Z

Reserved: 2022-09-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-39255

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-09-28T21:15:13.817

Modified: 2022-09-30T16:00:28.697

Link: CVE-2022-39255

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