🛡️ CVE-2025-13870 — mattermost-server

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

CVSS metrics in full

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

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-13870 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-2025-13870 is recorded against 6 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-server (from 10.11.0 up to 10.11.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 December 2025 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
mattermost.com (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:

• CVE-2025-62690 (2.0 Low, published 17 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-13352 (2.0 Low, published 17 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-13324 (published 17 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-12756 (published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-11777 (2.0 Low, published 17 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2025-11776 (published 14 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2020-14457 (published 20 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2024-41926 (published 1 Aug 2024)

Same weakness in other software

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

• CVE-2022-29160 (2.0 Low, published 12 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-45438 (published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2016-0757 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2002-0170 (8.0 High, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2000-1212 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-31231 (5.9 Medium, published 22 May 2026)
• CVE-2023-24215 (9.1 Critical, published 18 May 2026)
• CVE-2022-21305 (5.3 Medium, published 8 May 2026)

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