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CVE-2023-5196

Mattermost Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8= 8.1.08.1.1
gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6< 7.8.107.8.10

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MattermostMattermost
from 7.0.0 before 7.8.10
from 8.0.0 before 8.0.2
from 8.1.0 before 8.1.1

Weakness classification

References