CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-39836

Protection Mechanism Failure

Published: Aug 22, 2024 | Modified: Aug 23, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mattermost Mattermost 9.5.0 (including) 9.5.8 (excluding)
Mattermost Mattermost 9.8.0 (including) 9.8.3 (excluding)
Mattermost Mattermost 9.9.0 (including) 9.9.2 (excluding)
Mattermost Mattermost 9.10.0 (including) 9.10.1 (excluding)

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