CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-20888

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Published: Jun 19, 2020 | Modified: Jun 20, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.7, 5.6.3, 5.5.2, and 4.10.5. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an outgoing webhook or a slash command integration.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mattermost_server Mattermost * 4.10.5 (excluding)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.5.0 (including) 5.5.2 (excluding)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.6.0 (including) 5.6.3 (excluding)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.7.0-rc1 (including) 5.7.0-rc1 (including)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.7.0-rc2 (including) 5.7.0-rc2 (including)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.7.0-rc3 (including) 5.7.0-rc3 (including)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.7.0-rc4 (including) 5.7.0-rc4 (including)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.7.0-rc5 (including) 5.7.0-rc5 (including)
Mattermost_server Mattermost 5.7.0-rc6 (including) 5.7.0-rc6 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
  • When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
  • To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References