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TI-2026-35452 Aliases CVE-2026-48007GHSA-6vhh-4xw6-h2h2

Element Call reports full URLs of visited pages to analytics server

Priority LOW 39CWE-200Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-200.

Summary

Element Call is a native Matrix video conferencing application. Versions 0.5.17 through 0.19.3 report analytics data to a PostHog server, when configured to by a `posthog` key in config.json or by the `posthogApiHost` and `posthogApiKey` URL parameters. Several fields of this data (`$initial_person_info`, `$session_entry_url`, and `$current_url`) were found to contain the full URL of the user's visited page, including the fragment. Users of a standalone Element Call ‘SPA’ instance such as https://call.element.io may therefore have reported the full URLs of certain calls, including encryption passwords, to the configured PostHog server, potentially compromising the confidentiality of the calls to actors who could access both the PostHog analytics data and the encrypted media streams. The same issue is present in Element Call's embedded package, but in practice it does not impact applications using this package (including Element Web, Element Desktop, Element X iOS, and Element X Android) because they distribute encryption keys over Matrix rather than encoding a password in the URL. The issue is patched in Element Call 0.19.4. Some workarounds are available. Users may opt out of analytics in the 'Feedback' tab of Element Call's settings and create new links for future calls. Admins who host Element Call as a standalone application may disable PostHog analytics entirely by removing the `posthog` key from their deployment's config.json file.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00254 17th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed element-call (element-hq): 0.19.4@element-hq/element-call-embedded (npm): 0.19.4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
element-hqelement-call0.5.17 to before 0.19.40.19.4Patch availableCNA
—@element-hq/element-call-embedded (npm)0.5.17 to before 0.19.40.19.4Patch availableGHSA-6vhh-4xw6-h2h2
  • element-call Vendorelement-hq Affected 0.5.17 to before 0.19.4 Fixed in 0.19.4 Patch available CNA
  • @element-hq/element-call-embedded (npm) Vendor— Affected 0.5.17 to before 0.19.4 Fixed in 0.19.4 Patch available GHSA-6vhh-4xw6-h2h2

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA element-call (element-hq) Fixed in 0.19.4
  • Fix · GHSA-6vhh-4xw6-h2h2 @element-hq/element-call-embedded (npm) Fixed in 0.19.4 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-48007
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6vhh-4xw6-h2h2

References

  • TI-2024-35327 Synapse allows a a malformed invite to break the invitee's `/sync` CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2024-36056 Synapse can be forced to thumbnail unexpected file formats, invoking external, potentially untrustworthy decoders CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2024-35318 Synapse allows unsupported content types to lead to memory exhaustion CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2022-07650 Remote program execution with user interaction CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-19372 ESS Community Helm Chart has a weak server key generation method CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
  • TI-2024-24814 Synapse denial of service through media disk space consumption CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
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