CVE-2023-5193

System Role with manage posts permission can read posts of Direct Messages

State: Published
Severity: 4.9 Medium
Published: Sep 29, 2023
Updated: Sep 20, 2024
Reserved: Sep 26, 2023

Description

Mattermost fails to properly check permissions when retrieving a post allowing for a System Role with the permission to manage channels to read the posts of a DM conversation.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	Mattermost

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MattermostMattermost	8.0.1 and earlierAffected 7.8.9 and earlierAffected 8.1.0Affected 8.0.2Not affected 8.1.1Not affected 7.8.10Not affected

References

https://mattermost.com/security-updates

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