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Improper Privilege Management

CVE-2022-1548

High
8.8/10

Summary

Mattermost Playbooks plugin 1.25 and earlier fails to properly restrict user-level permissions, which allows playbook members to escalate their membership privileges and perform actions restricted to playbook admins.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

An effective privilege management infrastructure provides valid users with required access and privileges across heterogeneous technology environments. An application with a faulty privilege management infrastructure allows higher than authorized privileges or enables privilege escalation. This can lead to security incidents such as system infiltration, data breach, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published