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@4.10.3Details
### 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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