CVE-2021-29432 (GCVE-0-2021-29432)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-15 20:45
Modified
2024-08-03 22:02
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Summary
Sydent is a reference matrix identity server. A malicious user could abuse Sydent to send out arbitrary emails from the Sydent email address. This could be used to construct plausible phishing emails, for example. This issue has been fixed in 4469d1d.
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matrix-org sydent Version: < 2.3.0
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