Strip unauthorized fields from `unsigned` object in events received over federation (#11530)

* add some tests to verify we are stripping unauthorized fields out of unsigned

* add function to strip unauthorized fields from the unsigned object of event

* newsfragment

* update newsfragment number

* add check to on_send_membership_event

* refactor tests

* fix lint error

* slightly refactor tests and add some comments

* slight refactor

* refactor tests

* fix import error

* slight refactor

* remove unsigned filtration code from synapse/handlers/federation_event.py

* lint

* move unsigned filtering code to event base

* refactor tests

* update newsfragment

* requested changes

* remove unused retun values

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/federation/federation_base.py b/synapse/federation/federation_base.py

index addc0bf000..896168c05c 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/federation_base.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/federation_base.py
@@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ def event_from_pdu_json(pdu_json: JsonDict, room_version: RoomVersion) -> EventB
     # origin, etc etc)
     assert_params_in_dict(pdu_json, ("type", "depth"))
 
+    # Strip any unauthorized values from "unsigned" if they exist
+    if "unsigned" in pdu_json:
+        _strip_unsigned_values(pdu_json)
+
     depth = pdu_json["depth"]
     if not isinstance(depth, int):
         raise SynapseError(400, "Depth %r not an intger" % (depth,), Codes.BAD_JSON)
@@ -245,3 +249,24 @@ def event_from_pdu_json(pdu_json: JsonDict, room_version: RoomVersion) -> EventB
 
     event = make_event_from_dict(pdu_json, room_version)
     return event
+
+
+def _strip_unsigned_values(pdu_dict: JsonDict) -> None:
+    """
+    Strip any unsigned values unless specifically allowed, as defined by the whitelist.
+
+    pdu: the json dict to strip values from. Note that the dict is mutated by this
+    function
+    """
+    unsigned = pdu_dict["unsigned"]
+
+    if not isinstance(unsigned, dict):
+        pdu_dict["unsigned"] = {}
+
+    if pdu_dict["type"] == "m.room.member":
+        whitelist = ["knock_room_state", "invite_room_state", "age"]
+    else:
+        whitelist = ["age"]
+
+    filtered_unsigned = {k: v for k, v in unsigned.items() if k in whitelist}
+    pdu_dict["unsigned"] = filtered_unsigned