===========================
This release fixes a security issue in the media store, affecting all prior releases of Synapse. Server administrators are encouraged to update Synapse as soon as possible. We are not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.
Server administrators who are unable to update Synapse may use the workarounds described in the linked GitHub Security Advisory below.
Security advisory
-----------------
The following issue is fixed in 1.47.1.
- **[GHSA-3hfw-x7gx-437c](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-3hfw-x7gx-437c) / [CVE-2021-41281](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-41281): Path traversal when downloading remote media.**
Synapse instances with the media repository enabled can be tricked into downloading a file from a remote server into an arbitrary directory, potentially outside the media store directory.
The last two directories and file name of the path are chosen randomly by Synapse and cannot be controlled by an attacker, which limits the impact.
Homeservers with the media repository disabled are unaffected. Homeservers configured with a federation whitelist are also unaffected.
Fixed by [91f2bd090](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/91f2bd090).
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Merge tag 'v1.47.1'
Synapse 1.47.1 (2021-11-23)
===========================
This release fixes a security issue in the media store, affecting all prior releases of Synapse. Server administrators are encouraged to update Synapse as soon as possible. We are not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.
Server administrators who are unable to update Synapse may use the workarounds described in the linked GitHub Security Advisory below.
Security advisory
-----------------
The following issue is fixed in 1.47.1.
- **[GHSA-3hfw-x7gx-437c](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-3hfw-x7gx-437c) / [CVE-2021-41281](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-41281): Path traversal when downloading remote media.**
Synapse instances with the media repository enabled can be tricked into downloading a file from a remote server into an arbitrary directory, potentially outside the media store directory.
The last two directories and file name of the path are chosen randomly by Synapse and cannot be controlled by an attacker, which limits the impact.
Homeservers with the media repository disabled are unaffected. Homeservers configured with a federation whitelist are also unaffected.
Fixed by [91f2bd090](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/91f2bd090).
Instead of only known relation types. This also reworks the background
update for thread relations to crawl events and search for any relation
type, not just threaded relations.
If `room_list_publication_rules` was configured with a rule with a
non-wildcard alias and a room was created with an alias then an
internal server error would have been thrown.
This fixes the error and properly applies the publication rules
during room creation.
Fixes a bug introduced in #11129: objects signed by the local server, but with
keys other than the current one, could not be successfully verified.
We need to check the key id in the signature, and track down the right key.
* remove code legacy code related to deprecated config flag "trust_identity_server_for_password_resets" from synapse/config/emailconfig.py
* remove legacy code supporting depreciated config flag "trust_identity_server_for_password_resets" from synapse/config/registration.py
* remove legacy code supporting depreciated config flag "trust_identity_server_for_password_resets" from synapse/handlers/identity.py
* add tests to ensure config error is thrown and synapse refuses to start when depreciated config flag is found
* add changelog
* slightly change behavior to only check for deprecated flag if set to 'true'
* Update changelog.d/11333.misc
Co-authored-by: reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
Adds validation to the Client-Server API to ensure that
the potential thread head does not relate to another event
already. This results in not allowing a thread to "fork" into
other threads.
If the target event is unknown for some reason (maybe it isn't
visible to your homeserver), but is the target of other events
it is assumed that the thread can be created from it. Otherwise,
it is rejected as an unknown event.
Otherwise I get this beautiful stacktrace:
```
python3 -m synapse.app.homeserver --config-path /etc/matrix/homeserver.yaml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/root/synapse/synapse/app/homeserver.py", line 455, in <module>
main()
File "/root/synapse/synapse/app/homeserver.py", line 445, in main
hs = setup(sys.argv[1:])
File "/root/synapse/synapse/app/homeserver.py", line 345, in setup
config = HomeServerConfig.load_or_generate_config(
File "/root/synapse/synapse/config/_base.py", line 671, in load_or_generate_config
config_dict = read_config_files(config_files)
File "/root/synapse/synapse/config/_base.py", line 717, in read_config_files
yaml_config = yaml.safe_load(file_stream)
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/__init__.py", line 125, in safe_load
return load(stream, SafeLoader)
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/__init__.py", line 81, in load
return loader.get_single_data()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line 49, in get_single_data
node = self.get_single_node()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 36, in get_single_node
document = self.compose_document()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 55, in compose_document
node = self.compose_node(None, None)
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 84, in compose_node
node = self.compose_mapping_node(anchor)
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 133, in compose_mapping_node
item_value = self.compose_node(node, item_key)
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 82, in compose_node
node = self.compose_sequence_node(anchor)
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 110, in compose_sequence_node
while not self.check_event(SequenceEndEvent):
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 98, in check_event
self.current_event = self.state()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 379, in parse_block_sequence_first_entry
return self.parse_block_sequence_entry()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 384, in parse_block_sequence_entry
if not self.check_token(BlockEntryToken, BlockEndToken):
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 116, in check_token
self.fetch_more_tokens()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 227, in fetch_more_tokens
return self.fetch_alias()
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 610, in fetch_alias
self.tokens.append(self.scan_anchor(AliasToken))
File "/root/synapse/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 922, in scan_anchor
raise ScannerError("while scanning an %s" % name, start_mark,
yaml.scanner.ScannerError: while scanning an alias
in "/etc/matrix/homeserver.yaml", line 614, column 5
expected alphabetic or numeric character, but found '.'
in "/etc/matrix/homeserver.yaml", line 614, column 6
```
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Søborg <git@xn--sb-lka.org>
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.47.0rc1 which caused worker processes to not halt startup in the presence of outstanding database migrations. ([\#11346](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11346))
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.47.0rc1 which prevented the 'remove deleted devices from `device_inbox` column' background process from running when updating from a recent Synapse version. ([\#11303](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11303), [\#11353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11353))
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Merge tag 'v1.47.0rc3' into develop
Synapse 1.47.0rc3 (2021-11-16)
==============================
Bugfixes
--------
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.47.0rc1 which caused worker processes to not halt startup in the presence of outstanding database migrations. ([\#11346](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11346))
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.47.0rc1 which prevented the 'remove deleted devices from `device_inbox` column' background process from running when updating from a recent Synapse version. ([\#11303](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11303), [\#11353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11353))
It already seems to pass mypy. I wonder what changed, given that it was
on the exclusion list. So this commit consists of me ensuring
`--disallow-untyped-defs` passes and a minor fixup to a function that
returned either `True` or `None`.
Sean Quah