CVE-2025-30355Synapse vulnerable to federation denial of service via malformed events
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Synapse is an open source Matrix homeserver implementation. A malicious server can craft events which, when received, prevent Synapse version up to 1.127.0 from federating with other servers. The vulnerability has been exploited in the wild and has been fixed in Synapse v1.127.1. No known workarounds are available.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
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 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
- affected < 1.127.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPImatrix-synapseGHSA-v56r-hwv5-mxg6 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-v56r-hwv5-mxg6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/commit/2277df2a1eb685f85040ef98fa21d41aa4cdd389 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/releases/tag/v1.127.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
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-2025-8265 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v56r-hwv5-mxg6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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