Mattermost Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-49874

Mattermost fails to check whether a user is a guest when updating the tasks of a private playbook run allowing a guest to update the tasks of a private playbook run if they know the run ID.

CVE-2023-50333

Mattermost fails to update the permissions of the current session for a user who was just demoted to guest, allowing freshly demoted guests to change group names.

CVE-2023-5159

Mattermost fails to properly verify the permissions when managing/updating a bot allowing a User Manager role with user edit permissions to manage/update bots.

CVE-2023-5160

Mattermost fails to check the Show Full Name option at the /api/v4/teams/TEAM_ID/top/team_members endpoint allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Full Name option was disabled

CVE-2023-5193

Mattermost fails to properly check permissions when retrieving a post allowing for a System Role with the permission to manage channels to read the posts of a DM conversation.

CVE-2023-5194

Mattermost fails to properly validate permissions when demoting and deactivating a user allowing for a system/user manager to demote / deactivate another manager

CVE-2023-5195

Mattermost fails to properly validate the permissions when soft deleting a team allowing a team member to soft delete other teams that they are not part of

CVE-2023-5196

Mattermost fails to enforce character limits in all possible notification props allowing an attacker to send a really long value for a notification_prop resulting in the server consuming an abnormal quantity of computing resources and possibly becoming temporarily unavailable for its users.

CVE-2023-5330

Mattermost fails to enforce a limit for the size of the cache entry for OpenGraph data allowing an attacker to send a specially crafted request to the /api/v4/opengraph filling the cache and turning the server unavailable.

CVE-2023-5331

Mattermost fails to properly check the creator of an attached file when adding the file to a draft post, potentially exposing unauthorized file information.

CVE-2023-5333

Mattermost fails to deduplicate input IDs allowing a simple user to cause the application to consume excessive resources and possibly crash by sending a specially crafted request to /api/v4/users/ids with multiple identical IDs.

CVE-2023-5339

Mattermost Desktop fails to set an appropriate log level during initial run after fresh installation resulting in logging all keystrokes including password entry being logged.

CVE-2023-5522

Mattermost Mobile fails to limit the maximum number of Markdown elements in a post allowing an attacker to send a post with hundreds of emojis to a channel and freeze the mobile app of users when viewing that particular channel.

CVE-2023-5875

Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server

CVE-2023-5876

Mattermost fails to properly validate a RegExp built off the server URL path, allowing an attacker in control of an enrolled server to mount a Denial Of Service.

CVE-2023-5920

Mattermost Desktop for MacOS fails to utilize the secure keyboard input functionality provided by macOS, allowing for other processes to read the keyboard input.

CVE-2023-5967

Mattermost fails to properly validate requests to the Calls plugin, allowing an attacker sending a request without a User Agent header to cause a panic and crash the Calls plugin

CVE-2023-5968

Mattermost fails to properly sanitize the user object when updating the username, resulting in the password hash being included in the response body.

CVE-2023-5969

Mattermost fails to properly sanitize the request to /api/v4/redirect_location allowing an attacker, sending a specially crafted request to /api/v4/redirect_location, to fill up the memory due to caching large items.

CVE-2023-6202

Mattermost fails to perform proper authorization in the /plugins/focalboard/api/v2/users endpoint allowing an attacker who is a guest user and knows the ID of another user to get their information (e.g. name, surname, nickname) via Mattermost Boards.

CVE-2023-6458

Mattermost webapp fails to validate route parameters in/<TEAM_NAME>/channels/<CHANNEL_NAME> allowing an attacker to perform a client-side path traversal.

CVE-2023-6459

Mattermost is grouping calls in the /metrics endpoint by id and reports that id in the response. Since this id is the channelID, the public /metrics endpoint is revealing channelIDs.

CVE-2023-6547

Mattermost fails to validate team membership when a user attempts to access a playbook, allowing a user with permissions to a playbook but no permissions to the team the playbook is on to access and modify the playbook. This can happen if the user was once a member of the team, got permissions to t...

CVE-2023-6727

Mattermost fails to perform correct authorization checks when creating a playbook action, allowing users without access to the playbook to create playbook actions. If the playbook action created is to post a message in a channel based on specific keywords in a post, some playbook information, like ...

CVE-2023-7113

Mattermost version 8.1.6 and earlier fails to sanitize channel mention data in posts, which allows an attacker to inject markup in the web client.

CVE-2023-7114

Mattermost version 2.10.0 and earlier fails to sanitize deeplink paths, which allows an attacker to perform CSRF attacks against the server.

CVE-2024-1402

Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobile app of a user seeing the post and to c...

CVE-2024-23319

Mattermost Jira Plugin fails to protect against logout CSRF allowing an attacker to post a specially crafted message that would disconnect a user's Jira connection in Mattermost only by viewing the message.

CVE-2024-24774

Mattermost Jira Plugin handling subscriptions fails to check the security level of an incoming issue or limit it based on the user who created the subscription resulting in registered users on Jira being able to create webhooks that give them access to all Jira issues.

CVE-2024-24776

Mattermost fails to check the required permissions in the POST /api/v4/channels/stats/member_count API resulting in channel member counts being leaked to a user without permissions.

CVE-2024-29977

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6 fail to properly validate synced reactions, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to create arbitrary reactions on arbitrary posts

CVE-2024-32939

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.x <= 9.10.0, 9.8.x <= 9.8.2, when shared channels are enabled, fail to redact remote users' original email addresses stored in user props when email addresses are otherwise configured not to be visible in the local server."

CVE-2024-32945

Mattermost Mobile Apps versions <=2.16.0 fail to protect against abuse of a globally shared MathJax state which allows an attacker to change the contents of a LateX post, by creating another post with specific macro definitions.

CVE-2024-36257

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 and 9.8.0, when using shared channels with multiple remote servers connected, fail to check that the remote server A requesting the server B to update the profile picture of a user is the remote that actually has the user as a local one . This allows a maliciou...

CVE-2024-36287

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.7.0 fail to disable certain Electron debug flags which allows for bypassing TCC restrictions on macOS.

CVE-2024-36492

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5, 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to disallow the modification of local users when syncing users in shared channels. which allows a malicious remote to overwrite an existing local user.

CVE-2024-37182

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.7.0 fail to correctly prompt for permission when opening external URLs which allows a remote attacker to force a victim over the Internet to run arbitrary programs on the victim's system via custom URI schemes.

CVE-2024-39274

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5 and 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to properly validate that the channel that comes from the sync message is a shared channel, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to add users to arbitrary teams and ch...

CVE-2024-39353

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 and 9.8.0 fail to sanitize the RemoteClusterFrame payloads before audit logging them which allows a high privileged attacker with access to the audit logs to read message contents.

CVE-2024-39361

Mattermost versions 9.8.0, 9.7.x <= 9.7.4, 9.6.x <= 9.6.2 and 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 fail to prevent users from specifying a RemoteId for their posts which allows an attacker to specify both a remoteId and the post ID, resulting in creating a post with a user-defined post ID. This can cause some b...

CVE-2024-39613

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.8.0 fail to specify an absolute path when searching the cmd.exe file, which allows a local attacker who is able to put an cmd.exe file in the Downloads folder of a user's machine to cause remote code execution on that machine.

CVE-2024-39767

Mattermost Mobile Apps versions <=2.16.0 fail to validate that the push notifications received for a server actually came from this serve that which allows a malicious server to send push notifications with another server’s diagnostic ID or server URL and have them show up in mobile apps as that...

CVE-2024-39772

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.8.0 fail to safeguard screen capture functionality which allows an attacker to silently capture high-quality screenshots via JavaScript APIs.

CVE-2024-39777

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5 and 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to disallow unsolicited invites to expose access to local channels, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to send an invite with the ID of an existing local channel, an...

CVE-2024-39807

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 and 9.8.0 fail to properly sanitize the recipients of a webhook event which allows an attacker monitoring webhook events to retrieve the channel IDs of archived or restored channels.

CVE-2024-39810

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.7 and 9.10.x <= 9.10.0 fail to time limit and size limit the CA path file in the ElasticSearch configuration which allows a System Role with access to the Elasticsearch system console to add any file as a CA path field, such as /dev/zero and, after testing the...

CVE-2024-39830

Mattermost versions 9.8.x <= 9.8.0, 9.7.x <= 9.7.4, 9.6.x <= 9.6.2 and 9.5.x <= 9.5.5, when shared channels are enabled, fail to use constant time comparison for remote cluster tokens which allows an attacker to retrieve the remote cluster token via a timing attack during remote cluster...

CVE-2024-39832

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5, 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to properly safeguard an error handling which allows a malicious remote to permanently delete local data by abusing dangerous error handling, when share channels were enabled.

CVE-2024-39836

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.x <= 9.10.0 and 9.8.x <= 9.8.2 fail to ensure that remote/synthetic users cannot create sessions or reset passwords, which allows the munged email addresses, created by shared channels, to be used to receive email notifications an...

CVE-2024-39837

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6 fail to properly restrict channel creation which allows a malicious remote to create arbitrary channels, when shared channels were enabled.