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GHSA-j944-w549-3453

Cinny vulnerable to access token disclosure via invalidated emoji pack avatar URL in service worker

Quick fix

GHSA-j944-w549-3453 — cinny: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install cinny@4.10.3

Details

### Impact A remote authenticated attacker who shares a room with a victim and has permissions to create room emotes (for example in a DM) can cause the victim's client to send their Matrix access token to an attacker-controlled server. This occurs when the victim opens the emoji or sticker picker for the room containing a malicious emote pack.

The root causes are:

(1) an incorrect fallback in EmojiBoard that uses untrusted `pack.meta.avatar` (user-controlled) without converting/validating it as an MXC URL, allowing arbitrary HTTP(S) URLs to be used; and

(2) the service worker attaching the user's Authorization bearer token to all outbound GET requests whose URL contains `/_matrix/client/v1/media/download` or `/_matrix/client/v1/media/thumbnail` without verifying the request host matches the configured homeserver origin. An attacker-controlled URL containing those path fragments and permissive CORS will receive the victim's Authorization header (access token).

Impacted users: anybody using affected Cinny web app versions who opens the emoji/sticker picker in a room containing a malicious emote pack and who is logged in (authenticated).

### Patches Version with fixes: https://github.com/cinnyapp/cinny/releases/tag/v4.10.3

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Affected packages

npm/cinny
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.10.3
Fixnpm install cinny@4.10.3

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