Mattermost fails to restrict a user with permissions to edit other users and to create personal access tokens from elevating their privileges to system admin

Mattermost fails to restrict which parameters' values it takes from the request during signup allowing an attacker to register users as inactive, thus blocking them from later accessing Mattermost without the system admin activating their accounts.

Mattermost fails to redact from audit logs the user password during user creation and the user password hash in other operations if the experimental audit logging configuration was enabled (ExperimentalAuditSettings section in config).

Mattermost Sever fails to redact the DB username and password before emitting an application log during server initialization.

Mattermost fails to sanitize post metadata during audit logging resulting in permalinks contents being logged

Mattermost fails to properly validate the requesting user permissions when updating a system admin, allowing a user manager to update a system admin's details such as email, first name and last name.

Mattermost fails to check if the requesting user is a guest before performing different actions to public playbooks, resulting a guest being able to view, join, edit, export and archive public playbooks.

Mattermost fails to sanitize ephemeral error messages, allowing an attacker to obtain arbitrary message contents by a specially crafted /groupmsg command.

Mattermost fails to verify if the requestor is a sysadmin or not, before allowing install requests to the Apps allowing a regular user send install requests to the Apps.

Mattermost fails to unescape Markdown strings in a memory-efficient way, allowing an attacker to cause a Denial of Service by sending a message containing a large number of escaped characters.

Mattermost fails to check if an admin user account active after an oauth2 flow is started, allowing an attacker with admin privileges to retain persistent access to Mattermost by obtaining an oauth2 access token while the attacker's account is deactivated.

Mattermost fails to validate links on external websites when constructing a preview for a linked website, allowing an attacker to cause a denial-of-service by a linking to a specially crafted webpage in a message.

Mattermost fails to check channel membership when accessing message threads, allowing an attacker to access arbitrary posts by using the message threads API.

Mattermost fails to normalize UTF confusable characters when determining if a preview should be generated for a hyperlink, allowing an attacker to trigger link preview on a disallowed domain using a specially crafted link.

Mattermost fails to delete the attachments when deleting a message in a thread allowing a simple user to still be able to access and download the attachment of a deleted message

Mattermost fails to properly truncate the postgres error log message of a search query failure allowing an attacker to cause the creation of large log files which can result in Denial of Service

Mattermost Apps Framework fails to verify that a secret provided in the incoming webhook request allowing an attacker to modify the contents of the post sent by the Apps.

Mattermost fails to properly check the permissions when executing commands allowing a member with no permissions to post a message in a channel to actually post it by executing channel commands.

When creating a playbook run via the /dialog API, Mattermost fails to validate all parameters, allowing an authenticated attacker to edit an arbitrary channel post.