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CVE-2022-39252

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-39252 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting matrix-rust-sdk versions prior to 0.6, where the Matrix encryption library fails to validate the source of forwarded room keys. This oversight allows malicious homeservers to inject invalid room keys, potentially enabling impersonation attacks. With a CVSS score of 7.5, the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, leading to a high impact on integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matrix:matrix-rust-sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 17th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: matrix-sdk-cryptoFixed in: 0.6.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-vp68-2wrm-69qmmedium

matrix-sdk-crypto contains potential impersonation via room key forward responses

Sep 30, 2022

References

github.com / matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/commit/093fb5d0aa21c0b5eaea6ec96b477f1075271cbb
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/commit/41449d2cc360e347f5d4e1c154ec1e3185f11acd
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/releases/tag/matrix-sdk-0.6.0
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-vp68-2wrm-69qm
Third Party Advisory