CVE-2026-45076: Synapse pagination Denial of Service

May 14, 2026 (updated June 9, 2026)

In federated rooms, malicious homeservers can craft room events in such a way that prevents Synapse from providing full history to paginating clients.

Clients could therefore fail to display room history.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-6qf2-7x63-mm6v
github.com/element-hq/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-6qf2-7x63-mm6v
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/matrix-synapse/PYSEC-2026-194.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45076

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