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PYSEC-2021-23

Quick fix

PYSEC-2021-23 — matrix-sydent: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'matrix-sydent>=4469d1d42b2b1612b70638224c07e19623039c42'

Details

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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Affected packages

PyPI/matrix-sydent

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4469d1d42b2b1612b70638224c07e19623039c42

Fixpip install --upgrade 'matrix-sydent>=4469d1d42b2b1612b70638224c07e19623039c42'

References

https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/security/advisories/GHSA-mh74-4m5g-fcjx[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/commit/4469d1d42b2b1612b70638224c07e19623039c42[FIX]
https://pypi.org/project/matrix-sydent/[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/matrix-org/sydent/releases/tag/v2.3.0[WEB]