CVE-2021-32659 – Automatic room upgrade handling can be used maliciously to bridge a room non-consentually

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2021-32659

16 Jun 2021 — Matrix-appservice-bridge is the bridging service for the Matrix communication program's application services. In versions 2.6.0 and earlier, if a bridge has room upgrade handling turned on in the configuration (the `roomUpgradeOpts` key when instantiating a new `Bridge` instance.), any `m.room.tombstone` event it encounters will be used to unbridge the current room and bridge into the target room. However, the target room `m.room.create` event is not checked to verify if the `predecessor` field contains the... • https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/commit/b69e745584a34fcfd858df33e4631e420da07b9f • CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function •