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 restrict which roles can promote a user as system admin which allows a System Role with edit access to the permissions section of system console to update their role (e.g. member) to include the manage_system permission, effectively becoming a System Admin.
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.
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 fail to sanitize user inputs in the frontend that are used for redirection which allows for a one-click client-side path traversal that is leading to CSRF in User Management page of the system console.
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 fail to properly enforce permissions which allows a user with systems manager role with read-only access to teams to perform write operations on teams.
Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.x <= 9.10.0 fail to properly enforce permissions which allows a team admin user without "Add Team Members" permission to disable the invite URL.
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 and to reset passwords, when they are valid, functional emails.
Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.0, 9.8.x <= 9.8.2 fail to enforce permissions which allows a guest user with read access to upload files to a channel.
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 channels
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
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.
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.
Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0 and 9.5.x <= 9.5.6 fail to validate the source of sync messages and only allow the correct remote IDs, which allows a malicious remote to set arbitrary RemoteId values for synced users and therefore claim that a user was synced from another remote.
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
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 users to set their own remote username, when shared channels were enabled, which allows a user on a remote to set their remote username prop to an arbitrary string, which would be then synced to the local server as long as the user hadn't been synced before.
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.
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 the modification of local channels by a remote, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to make an arbitrary local channel read-only.
Improper Access Control in Mattermost Server versions 9.5.x before 9.5.2, 9.4.x before 9.4.4, 9.3.x before 9.3.3, 8.1.x before 8.1.11 lacked proper access control in the /api/v4/users/me/teams endpoint allowing a team admin to get the invite ID of their team, thus allowing them to invite users, even if the "Add Members" permission was explicitly removed from team admins.
Improper Access Control in Mattermost Server versions 8.1.x before 8.1.11 allows an attacker that is in a channel with an active call to keep participating in the call even if they are removed from the channel
Mattermost Server versions 9.5.x before 9.5.2, 9.4.x before 9.4.4, 9.3.x before 9.3.3, 8.1.x before 8.1.11 don't limit the number of user preferences which allows an attacker to send a large number of user preferences potentially causing denial of service.
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.3, 9.4.x before 9.4.4, and 9.5.x before 9.5.2 fail to authenticate the source of certain types of post actions, allowing an authenticated attacker to create posts as other users via a crafted post action.
A race condition in Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.9, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 allows an authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to individual posts' contents via carefully timed post creation while another user deletes posts.
Mattermost fails to check if compliance export is enabled when fetching posts of public channels allowing a user that is not a member of the public channel to fetch the posts, which will not be audited in the compliance export.
Mattermost fails to properly authorize the requests fetching team associated AD/LDAP groups, allowing a user to fetch details of AD/LDAP groups of a team that they are not a member of.
Mattermost version 8.1.x before 8.1.9 fails to sanitize data associated with permalinks when a plugin updates an ephemeral post, allowing an authenticated attacker who can control the ephemeral post update to access individual posts' contents in channels they are not a member of.
Mattermost fails to properly restrict the access of files attached to posts in an archived channel, resulting in members being able to access files of archived channels even if the “Allow users to view archived channels” option is disabled.
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.9, 9.2.x before 9.2.5, 9.3.0, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 fail to limit the number of role names requested from the API, allowing an authenticated attacker to cause the server to run out of memory and crash by issuing an unusually large HTTP request.
Mattermost fails to check the "invite_guest" permission when inviting guests of other teams to a team, allowing a member with permissions to add other members but not to add guests to add a guest to a team as long as the guest was already a guest in another team of the server
Mattermost fails to properly validate the length of the emoji value in the custom user status, allowing an attacker to send multiple times a very long string as an emoji value causing high resource consumption and possibly crashing the server.
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.9, 9.2.x before 9.2.5, and 9.3.0 fail to sanitize the metadata on posts containing permalinks under specific conditions, which allows an authenticated attacker to access the contents of individual posts in channels they are not a member of.
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.
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.
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.
Mattermost fails to properly verify the permissions needed for viewing archived public channels, allowing a member of one team to get details about the archived public channels of another team via the GET /api/v4/teams//channels/deleted endpoint.
Mattermost fails to scope the WebSocket response around notified users to a each user separately resulting in the WebSocket broadcasting the information about who was notified about a post to everyone else in the channel.
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.
Mattermost webapp fails to validate route parameters in/<TEAM_NAME>/channels/<CHANNEL_NAME> allowing an attacker to perform a client-side path traversal.
Mattermost webapp fails to validate route parameters in/<TEAM_NAME>/channels/<CHANNEL_NAME> allowing an attacker to perform a client-side path traversal.
Mattermost webapp fails to validate route parameters in/<TEAM_NAME>/channels/<CHANNEL_NAME> allowing an attacker to perform a client-side path traversal.
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.
Mattermost fails to properly check a redirect URL parameter allowing for an open redirect was possible when the user clicked "Back to Mattermost" after providing a invalid custom url scheme in /oauth/{service}/mobile_login?redirect_to=
Mattermost fails to limit the log size of server logs allowing an attacker sending specially crafted requests to different endpoints to potentially overflow the log.
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.
Mattermost fails to limit the amount of data extracted from compressed archives during board import in Mattermost Boards allowing an attacker to consume excessive resources, possibly leading to Denial of Service, by importing a board using a specially crafted zip (zip bomb).
Mattermost fails to use innerText / textContent when setting the channel name in the webapp during autocomplete, allowing an attacker to inject HTML to a victim's page by create a channel name that is valid HTML. No XSS is possible though.
Mattermost fails to check if hardened mode is enabled when overriding the username and/or the icon when posting a post. If settings allowed integrations to override the username and profile picture when posting, a member could also override the username and icon when making a post even if the Hardened Mode setting was enabled
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.
Mattermost fails to check whether the “Allow users to view archived channels” setting is enabled during permalink previews display, allowing members to view permalink previews of archived channels even if the “Allow users to view archived channels” setting is disabled.
Mattermost fails to properly validate the "Show Full Name" option in a few endpoints in Mattermost Boards, allowing a member to get the full name of another user even if the Show Full Name option was disabled.
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.
Mattermost fails to properly sanitize the user object when updating the username, resulting in the password hash being included in the response body.
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
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.
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
Mattermost fails to properly validate permissions when demoting and deactivating a user allowing for a system/user manager to demote / deactivate another manager
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.
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.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.20.0. Non-members can receive broadcasted team details via the update_team WebSocket event, aka MMSA-2020-0012.