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CVE-2024-24988

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.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.68%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.68% probability · 50th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400
Affected
mattermost/mattermost server
Source
responsibledisclosure@mattermost.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.