cve-2024-52805
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-03 17:01
Modified
2024-12-03 19:04
Summary
Synapse allows unsupported content types to lead to memory exhaustion
Impacted products
element-hqsynapse
Show details on NVD website


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