PT-2023-32451 · Unknown · Mattermost

Vultza · Published 2023-11-06 · Updated 2023-11-14 · CVE-2023-5969

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mattermost (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue arises from the failure to properly sanitize requests to the /api/v4/redirect location API endpoint, allowing an attacker to send specially crafted requests that can fill up the memory due to caching large items.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5969

GHSA-W496-F5QQ-M58J

Affected Products

Mattermost

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5969 · Security Note
• https://mattermost.com/security-updates · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5969 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-w496-f5qq-m58j · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost · Note
• https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/pull/24429 · Note
• https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/77f094c7ee8c7a00be01c2df72f948a62c690b66 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5969 · Note