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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-47003

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Mattermost versions 9.5.x prior to 9.5.9-rc1, and 9.11.x prior to 9.11.1-rc1 fails to validate that the message of the permalink post is a string, which allows an attacker to send a non-string value as the message of a permalink post and crash the frontend.

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

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published