Vulnerability Instance

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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-5qpz-wwr2-7uey",
    "summary": "Denial of service (via resource exhaustion) due to improper input validation in third-party identifier endpoint\n### Impact\nMissing input validation of some parameters on the endpoints used to confirm third-party identifiers could cause excessive use of disk space and memory leading to resource exhaustion.\n\n### Patches\nThe issue is fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9855.\n\n### Workarounds\nThere are no known workarounds.\n\n### References\nn/a\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@matrix.org.",
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            "name": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption",
            "description": "The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources."
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