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CVE-2023-40703

Mattermost Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Impact

Mattermost fails to properly limit the characters allowed in different fields of a block in Mattermost Boards allowing a attacker to consume excessive resources, possibly leading to Denial of Service, by patching the field of a block using a specially crafted string. 

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8>= 9.1.0, < 9.1.19.1.1
gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6< 7.8.137.8.13

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MattermostMattermost
through 7.8.12
from 8.0.0 through 8.1.3
from 9.0.0 through 9.0.1
Version 9.1.0

Weakness classification

References