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CVE-2022-39254

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-39254 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting matrix-nio, a Python Matrix client library prior to version 0.20. It allows a malicious homeserver to insert potentially invalid room keys, leading to an impersonation attack. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on integrity, requiring no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matrix-nio_project:matrix-nio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: matrix-nioFixed in: 0.20

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-w4pr-4vjg-hffhhigh

When matrix-nio receives forwarded room keys, the receiver doesn't check if it requested the key from the forwarder

Sep 30, 2022

References

github.com / poljar/matrix-nio/commit/b1cbf234a831daa160673defd596e6450e9c29f0
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / poljar/matrix-nio/security/advisories/GHSA-w4pr-4vjg-hffh
Third Party Advisory