CVE-2022-39251

HIGHNVD 8.68.6
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” 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.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2022-6927 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-r48r-j8fx-mq2c (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.2%CVSS: 8.6Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Matrix Javascript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. Prior to version 19.7.0, an attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver can construct messages that legitimately appear to have come from another person, without any indication such as a grey shield. Additionally, a sophisticated attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver could employ this vulnerability to perform a targeted attack in order to send fake to-device messages appearing to originate from another user. This can allow, for example, to inject the key backup secret during a self-verification, to make a targeted device start using a malicious key backup spoofed by the homeserver. These attacks are possible due to a protocol confusion vulnerability that accepts to-device messages encrypted with Megolm instead of Olm. Starting with version 19.7.0, matrix-js-sdk has been modified to only accept Olm-encrypted to-device messages. Out of caution, several other checks have been audited or added. This attack requires coordination between a malicious home server and an attacker, so those who trust their home servers do not need a workaround.

CVSS v3
8.6
EG Score
8.6HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
54
EG 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 28, 2022

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 2, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_release, github.
Web page

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202210-35) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-35
Web page

Matrix.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-clients
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Olm/Megolm protocol confusion · Advisory · matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk · GitHub

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-r48r-j8fx-mq2c
GitHub release Patch Available

v19.7.0

Patch available: matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk v19.7.0

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/releases/tag/v19.7.0
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 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/a587d7c36026fe1fcf93dfff63588abee359be76

Patch Availability(8)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuthunderbird-locale-id (1:102.4.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) @ bionic2026-10-28ubuntu
redhatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el7_92022-10-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_62022-10-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_12022-10-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_22022-10-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el8_42022-10-25redhat
redhatthunderbird-0:102.4.0-1.el9_02022-10-25redhat
npmmatrix-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)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-matrix-js-sdk9.11.0+~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
  • every version on: no fix on record
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npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
matrix-js-sdk—
  • every version up to 19.7.0: fixed in 19.7.0
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

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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 96 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. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 122 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 08:24 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 08:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r48r-j8fx-mq2c · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  3. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.2% · 67th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-28 16:19 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-39251?
CVE-2022-39251 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 28, 2022. Matrix Javascript SDK is the Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. Prior to version 19.7.0, an attacker cooperating with a malicious homeserver can construct messages that legitimately appear to have come from another person, without any indication such as a grey shield. Additionally, a…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-39251 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-39251 was published on September 28, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-39251 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-39251 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (67th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-39251?
CVE-2022-39251 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.6 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-39251?
A fix for CVE-2022-39251 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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