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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2025-23197

matrix-hookshot has a Potential Denial of Service when Hookshot is configured with GitHub support

Description

matrix-hookshot is a Matrix bot for connecting to external services like GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, and more. When Hookshot 6 version 6.0.1 or below, or Hookshot 5 version 5.4.1 or below, is configured with GitHub support, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) whereby it can crash on restart due to a missing check. The impact is greater to you untrusted users can add their own GitHub organizations to Hookshot in order to connect their room to a repository. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.0.2 and 5.4.2.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

matrix-org matrix-hookshot

  • >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.2affected
  • < 5.4.2affected

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