Mattermost up to 9.5.6/9.7.5/9.8.1/9.9.0 Shared Channel access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mattermost up to 9.5.6/9.7.5/9.8.1/9.9.0 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Shared Channel Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-39274. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mattermost up to 9.5.6/9.7.5/9.8.1/9.9.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component Shared Channel Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.6, 9.7.x <= 9.7.5 and 9.8.x <= 9.8.1 fail to properly validate that the channel that comes from the sync message is a shared channel, when shared channels are enabled, which allows a malicious remote to add users to arbitrary teams and channels

The weakness was disclosed by Juho Forsén. The advisory is available at mattermost.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-39274 since 07/23/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 9.5.7, 9.7.6, 9.8.2, 9.9.1 or 9.10.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Groupware Software

Name

• Mattermost

Version

• 9.0
• 9.1
• 9.2
• 9.3
• 9.4
• 9.5
• 9.5.0
• 9.5.1
• 9.5.2
• 9.5.3
• 9.5.4
• 9.5.5
• 9.5.6
• 9.6
• 9.7
• 9.7.0
• 9.7.1
• 9.7.2
• 9.7.3
• 9.7.4
• 9.7.5
• 9.8
• 9.8.0
• 9.8.1
• 9.9.0

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• open-source

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