CVE-2022-39264nheko vulnerable to secret poisoning using MITM on secret requests by the homeserver
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.82%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 42% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
nheko is a desktop client for the Matrix communication application. All versions below 0.10.2 are vulnerable homeservers inserting malicious secrets, which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. Users can upgrade to version 0.10.2 to protect against this issue. As a workaround, one may apply the patch manually, avoid doing verifications of one's own devices, and/or avoid pressing the request button in the settings menu.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.82% · top 42% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
- affected < 0.10.2
References
References5
- https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/security/advisories/GHSA-8jcp-8jq4-5mm7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/commit/67bee15a389f9b8a9f6c3a340558d1e2319e7199 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/releases/tag/v0.10.2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-959b529587 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-1fd94a54a1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-41773 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-39264)Record last updated .