Matrix JavaScript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server software development kit (SDK) for JavaScript. Prior to version 19.7.0, an attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver could interfere with the verification flow between two users, injecting its own cross-signing user identity in place of one of the users’ identities. This would lead to the other device trusting/verifying the user identity under the control of the homeserver instead of the intended one. The vulnerability is a bug in the matrix-js-sdk, caused by checking and signing user identities and devices in two separate steps, and inadequately fixing the keys to be signed between those steps. Even though the attack is partly made possible due to the design decision of treating cross-signing user identities as Matrix devices on the server side (with their device ID set to the public part of the user identity key), no other examined implementations were vulnerable. Starting with version 19.7.0, the matrix-js-sdk has been modified to double check that the key signed is the one that was verified instead of just referencing the key by ID. An additional check has been made to report an error when one of the device ID matches a cross-signing key. As this attack requires coordination between a malicious homeserver and an attacker, those who trust their homeservers do not need a particular workaround.
CVE-2022-39250
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 8.6 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-09-30. NVD baseline CVSS 8.6; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2022-6713 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5w8r-8pgj-5jmf (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.6
- EG Score
- 8.6HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 54EG Risk 54/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity86% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.6 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation1.2% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 1.2%
- EPSS %ILE
- 67th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (8.6): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.6 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 8.6 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 1.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
September 29, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Sep 1, 2026Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-35) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-35Matrix.org - Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-encryption-vulns-in-matrix-sdks-and-clientsKey/device identifier confusion in SAS verification · Advisory · matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk · GitHub
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-5w8r-8pgj-5jmfv19.7.0
Patch available: matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk v19.7.0
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/releases/tag/v19.7.0commit a587d7c36026 (matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk)
Patch available: matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk v41.1.0 (contains commit a587d7c36026)
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/commit/a587d7c36026fe1fcf93dfff63588abee359be76Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | thunderbird-locale-id (1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) @ bionic | 2026-10-28 | ubuntu |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_1 | 2022-10-25 | redhat |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_2 | 2022-10-25 | redhat |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_4 | 2022-10-25 | redhat |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el9_0 | 2022-10-25 | redhat |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el7_9 | 2022-10-25 | redhat |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_6 | 2022-10-25 | redhat |
| npm | matrix-js-sdk @ 19.7.0 (fixes < 19.7.0) | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-matrix-js-sdk | 9.11.0+~cs9.9.16-1, 9.11.0+~cs9.9.16-2, 9.3.0+~cs9.9.16-2, 9.7.0~~rc1+~cs9.9.16-1, 9.7.0~~rc1+~cs9.9.16-2 |
| — |
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| matrix-js-sdk | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(7)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7178IMPORTANT2022-09-28
RHSA-2022:7178 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7181IMPORTANT2022-09-28
RHSA-2022:7181 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7182IMPORTANT2022-09-28
RHSA-2022:7182 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7183IMPORTANT2022-09-28
RHSA-2022:7183 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7184IMPORTANT2022-09-28
RHSA-2022:7184 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7190IMPORTANT2022-09-28
RHSA-2022:7190 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-5724-1MEDIUM
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 41× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 97 of 218 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 121 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.2% · 67th percentile
- 2026-11-01 08:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5w8r-8pgj-5jmf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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