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Missing Authorization

CVE-2024-23493

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

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. This issue affects versions through 8.1.8, 9.0.0-rc1 through 9.0.6, 9.1.0-rc1 through 9.1.5, 9.2.0-rc1 through 9.2.4, 9.3.0-rc1 through 9.3.0, and 9.4.0-rc1 through 9.4.1.

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

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

The missing authorization vulnerability occurs when a software program allows users to access privileged parts of the program without verifying the user credentials. Impact of such a vulnerability depends on the resources employed by the software, ranging from account takeover to sensitive information exposure, denial of service, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published