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User content sandbox can be confused into opening arbitrary documents

GHSA-52mq-6jcv-j79x · CVE-2021-21320

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Description

Impact

The user content sandbox can be abused to trick users into opening unexpected documents after several user interactions. The content can be opened with a blob origin from the Matrix client, so it is possible for a malicious document to access user messages and secrets.

Patches

This has been fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/5657, which is included in 3.15.0.

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds.

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