Missing authorization in Client-Server API in Conduit <=0.7.0, allowing for any alias to be removed and added to another room, which can be used for privilege escalation by moving the #admins alias to a room which they control, allowing them to run commands resetting passwords, siging json with the server's key, deactivating users, and more

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6303
• https://conduit.rs/changelog/#v0-8-0-2024-06-12
• https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/releases/v0.8.0