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🛡️ CVE-2024-41144 — mattermost

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Mattermost allows remote actor to create/update/delete posts in arbitrary channels

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 validate synced posts, when shared channels are enabled,  which allows a malicious remote to create/update/delete arbitrary posts in arbitrary channels

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-41144 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-41144 is recorded against 7 packages.

  • github.com/mattermost/mattermost
  • github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
  • github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5
  • github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6
  • github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8
  • mattermost
  • mattermost-server

Timeline and source

Published on 1 August 2024 and last revised on 9 July 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
mattermost.com (Web)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/mattermost/mattermost has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-284: Improper Access Control) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-01
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-07-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/mattermost/mattermost
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5
github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6
github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8
mattermost
mattermost-server

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