CVE-2026-24458

DoS attack via login attempts with multi-megabyte passwords

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Mar 16, 2026
Updated: Mar 16, 2026
Reserved: Feb 13, 2026

Description

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to properly handle very long passwords, which allows an attacker to overload the server CPU and memory via executing login attempts with multi-megabyte passwords. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00587

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	Mattermost

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MattermostMattermost	11.3.0 through 11.3.0Affected 11.2.0 through 11.2.2Affected 10.11.0 through 10.11.10Affected 11.4.0Not affected 11.3.1Not affected 11.2.3Not affected 10.11.11Not affected

References

MMSA-2026-00587vendor-advisory

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