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Fixes CORE-2736

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Notifications now skip message edits when the original message is missing or the edit fails validation.
    • Redaction notifications are sent only when the target exists and the redaction is permitted. Redactions targeting events in another room or room-creation events, or lacking required permissions, do not trigger notifications.
    • Invalid or unauthorized events are no longer emitted as notifications.

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Event notification now validates replacement edits and redaction targets before emission. New event relation helpers perform these checks. Tests cover edit validation, notification filtering, redaction authorization, and target lookup.

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Event notification validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Replacement edit validation
packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts, packages/federation-sdk/src/services/event-notifier.service.ts, packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.spec.ts
Replacement edits are checked against their originals. Message and encrypted notifications are skipped when edits are invalid or their originals are unavailable. Tests cover replacement rules and notification decisions.
Redaction authorization and emission
packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts, packages/federation-sdk/src/services/event-notifier.service.ts, packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.spec.ts
Redactions require an allowed target before emission. Authorization checks room, event, homeserver, and power-level conditions. Tests cover authorization and target lookup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: type: bug

Suggested reviewers: sampaiodiego

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 746b0

Edits or redactions that arrive before their targets may never be announced, and redactions of rejected targets may be announced. Resolve these notification gaps before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bcc18

The new checks restrict unauthorized edits and redactions. However, an accepted redaction may be permanently skipped when its target is temporarily unavailable, potentially preventing downstream removal. Independent recovery by listeners has not been established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An accepted redaction whose target lookup returns null is treated as completed rather than pending: the notifier skips emission, staging removes the event, and duplicate ingress ignores its persisted ID. If the target subsequently becomes available, these paths do not reevaluate the redaction. Unlike the base notifier, the head requires target availability before emitting. For consumers that depend on this notification for privacy or moderation removal, this can permanently lose an authorized removal request; independent consumer recovery remains unresolved.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified concern affects delivery of individual accepted redactions and potentially the room content managed by their listeners. The inspected gates constrain target relationships to the same room. Exposure across external consumers or data stores is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A conditional failure path is accepted redaction delivery before target availability, followed by a successful no-notification return and duplicate suppression. This can withhold the removal signal from a dependent listener. Actual attacker control over the required ordering and resulting content retention were not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The redaction gate trusts the target sender's homeserver to police redactions among its users. Otherwise it checks the sender's power against the redact threshold in pre-redaction state, with a version-aware room-creator fallback when no power-level event exists.
  • observed — The raw emitter remains publicly exported and exposed through the SDK. This pre-existing capability is not a newly introduced bypass; the added checks enforce the notifier path rather than every possible in-process producer.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Lookup exceptions do not grant authorization or reach emission. Staging retains those failures for retry, providing recovery for transient exceptions, but absent targets return normally and do not receive that recovery behavior.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Distinguish unavailable relation evidence from a proven authorization denial. Preserve pending redactions for reevaluation when their targets become available, while retaining the same room and pre-event authority checks and idempotent notification delivery.
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❌ Patch coverage is 68.29268% with 26 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
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- Around line 66-68: Update the event-notification flow around
findAllowedRedactionTarget and isNotifiableEdit to retain unresolved redactions
and edits instead of discarding them; when a target event is stored, retry the
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- Line 97: Update the redaction condition around isRedactionAllowed to verify
that target.rejected is false before authorizing the redaction, so rejected
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const redacts = redaction.getRedacts();
const target = redacts ? await lookup.getEvent(redacts) : null;

if (redacts && target && (await isRedactionAllowed(redaction, target, lookup))) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject redactions whose target was rejected.

If StateService.getEvent returns a rejected target, this condition can still return its ID. EventNotifierService then emits a redaction for an invalid target. Check target.rejected before authorization. Matrix room version 10 requires both events to be valid before sending a redaction to clients. (spec.matrix.org)

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Update the redaction condition around isRedactionAllowed to verify that
target.rejected is false before authorizing the redaction, so rejected targets
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2 issues found across 3 files

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<file name="packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts:39">
P2: Redacting an edit removes its `m.relates_to`, so a later edit targeting it passes this guard and is notified as a valid replacement. Preserve the original edit relationship across redaction and use it when validating replacement targets.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts:97">
P2: This still emits redactions whose target event was rejected. `StateService.getEvent` preserves the rejection flag, but this condition treats the rejected target as verifiable; exclude `target.rejected` before authorizing the notification.</violation>
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return false;
}

if (getRelation(original.event)?.rel_type === 'm.replace') {

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P2: Redacting an edit removes its m.relates_to, so a later edit targeting it passes this guard and is notified as a valid replacement. Preserve the original edit relationship across redaction and use it when validating replacement targets.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts, line 39:

<comment>Redacting an edit removes its `m.relates_to`, so a later edit targeting it passes this guard and is notified as a valid replacement. Preserve the original edit relationship across redaction and use it when validating replacement targets.</comment>

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+		return false;
+	}
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+	if (getRelation(original.event)?.rel_type === 'm.replace') {
+		return false;
+	}
</file context>

const redacts = redaction.getRedacts();
const target = redacts ? await lookup.getEvent(redacts) : null;

if (redacts && target && (await isRedactionAllowed(redaction, target, lookup))) {

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P2: This still emits redactions whose target event was rejected. StateService.getEvent preserves the rejection flag, but this condition treats the rejected target as verifiable; exclude target.rejected before authorizing the notification.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/federation-sdk/src/utils/event-relations.ts, line 97:

<comment>This still emits redactions whose target event was rejected. `StateService.getEvent` preserves the rejection flag, but this condition treats the rejected target as verifiable; exclude `target.rejected` before authorizing the notification.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+	const redacts = redaction.getRedacts();
+	const target = redacts ? await lookup.getEvent(redacts) : null;
+
+	if (redacts && target && (await isRedactionAllowed(redaction, target, lookup))) {
+		return redacts;
+	}
</file context>
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if (redacts && target && (await isRedactionAllowed(redaction, target, lookup))) {
if (redacts && target && !target.rejected && (await isRedactionAllowed(redaction, target, lookup))) {

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