Service interruption via unbounded remote-media caching
Published Jan 16, 2025 · Updated Feb 12, 2025
Resource exhaustion in t2bot.io Matrix Media Repo before 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to interrupt service through remote media downloads. The unauthenticated download path retrieves and caches attacker-requested remote media without a request-volume limit, allowing storage consumption to grow without bound. File-backed or self-hosted S3 storage can fill and block authenticated uploads; cloud S3 storage instead incurs unbounded service charges.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in t2bot.io Matrix Media Repo before 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to interrupt service through remote media downloads. The unauthenticated download path retrieves and caches attacker-requested remote media without a request-volume limit, allowing storage consumption to grow without bound. File-backed or self-hosted S3 storage can fill and block authenticated uploads; cloud S3 storage instead incurs unbounded service charges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-36403
- Published
- Jan 16, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 12, 2025
- Vendor
- t2bot.io
- Product
- Matrix Media Repo
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 12, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 1.3.5
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