What is GHSA-275g-g844-73jh?

GHSA-275g-g844-73jh is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Matrix Rust SDK vulnerable to SQL Injection through its EventCache implementation

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-275g-g844-73jh cover?

GHSA-275g-g844-73jh covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-53549. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

Which products are affected by GHSA-275g-g844-73jh?

GHSA-275g-g844-73jh affects 2 products, including: rust/matrix-sdk:\u003e= 0.11.0, \u003c 0.13.0; rust/matrix-sdk-sqlite:\u003e= 0.11.0, \u003c 0.13.0.

GHSA-275g-g844-73jhMedium

Matrix Rust SDK vulnerable to SQL Injection through its EventCache implementation

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 10, 2025

Last Modified

July 11, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-53549 →

📋 Description

An SQL injection vulnerability in the EventCache::find_event_with_relations method of matrix-sdk 0.11 and 0.12 allows malicious room members to execute arbitrary SQL commands in Matrix clients that directly pass relation types provided by those room members into this method, when used with the default sqlite-based store backend. Exploitation is unlikely, as no known clients currently use the API in this manner.

Workarounds

Passing only trusted (or sanitised) relation types to the filter argument of EventCache::find_event_with_relations() avoids the issue.

Patches

The issue is fixed in matrix-sdk 0.13.

References

The issue was introduced in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/pull/4849.

🎯 Affected products2

rust/matrix-sdk:>= 0.11.0, < 0.13.0
rust/matrix-sdk-sqlite:>= 0.11.0, < 0.13.0