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Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.2 6.2.2.0 fail to redact the pre-auth secret when generating a diagnostics report, which allows a local attacker with access to a user's diagnostics report or log files to obtain the plaintext pre-auth secret configured for a connected server via inspecting the Server Connectivity (Step-3) diagnostics output. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00716
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21, 11.8.x <= 11.8.3 fail to validate BoardMember.Scheme fields server-side on insert and archive-import paths which allows a board editor or non-guest team member to grant board admin to arbitrary users via POST /api/v2/boards/{boardID}/members and POST /api/v2/teams/{teamID}/archive/import.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00685
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21, 11.8.x <= 11.8.3 fail to enforce PermissionManageBoardRoles on the channelId field of the batch endpoint, which allows an authenticated board editor to relink any board they can edit to an arbitrary channel via a crafted PATCH request. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00686
Mattermost versions 10.11.x <= 10.11.20, 11.7.x <= 11.7.5 Mattermost fails to remove thread membership records when a user is removed from or leaves a team, which allows a previously removed user who is later re-invited to the team to view private channel thread root post content and metadata via the team threads API.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00682
Mattermost versions 11.8.x <= 11.8.2, 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21 fail to restrict channel member role assignment to channel-scoped roles which allows a channel administrator to gain additional channel permissions via the channel member roles API.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00697
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21, 11.8.x <= 11.8.3 fail to validate that users have read access to a channel before linking a board to it, which allows an authenticated attacker to discover the membership of private channels on the same team via creating, patching, importing, or bulk-creating boards with an arbitrary channelId. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00674
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21 fail to enforce run-state validation on write operations for finished playbook runs which allows a run participant to modify status, checklists, retrospective content, ownership, and participants on completed runs via REST and GraphQL API requests. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00675
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21 Mattermost failed to restrict OAuth deauthorization and personal access token management endpoints to direct user sessions, which allowed an OAuth app with a delegated user token to revoke the user's authorizations or tokens for other integrations via account-management endpoints.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00704
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21 fail to prevent guest users from receiving Board Admin privileges during board archive import which allows a board member to escalate a guest user to Board Admin via importing a crafted .boardarchive file. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00672
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 11.8.x <= 11.8.3 The access control policy unassign endpoint fails to re-validate that each target channel still belongs to the requesting admin's team, which allows an authenticated team administrator to remove ABAC (attribute-based access control) policy assignments from channels outside their team via the policy unassign API after a channel has been moved to another team.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00718
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21, 11.8.x <= 11.8.3 fails to reconcile SchemeAdmin flags with a user's current role which allows a user demoted to System Guest to retain Board Admin privileges and perform admin-only operations via the Boards REST API or UI.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00691
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7, 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to properly limit resource consumption when processing certain user-supplied input, which allows an authenticated user to cause a denial of service. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00713
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21, 11.8.x <= 11.8.3 fails to validate WebSocket command field types which allows an authenticated user to crash the plugin process and deny service to all Boards users via a customfocalboardSUBSCRIBETEAM message with a non-string teamId.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00687
The Mattermost Google Drive plugin before version 1.1.0 fails to validate channel membership in the file creation endpoint, allowing authenticated users with a connected Google account to share Google Drive files to unauthorized private channels and disclose private channel membership.
Mattermost Mobile Apps versions <=2.37 11.4 2.0.37 11.0.4 11.1.3 11.3.2 10.11.11.0 fail to properly validate the SSO authentication callback origin which allows an attacker controlling a malicious Mattermost server to steal user credentials for a legitimate Mattermost server via relaying the SSO code exchange flow through the mobile application. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00564
Mattermost Plugin Legal Hold versions <=1.1.4 fail to halt request processing after a failed authorization check in ServeHTTP which allows an authenticated attacker to access, create, download, and delete legal hold data via crafted API requests to the plugin's endpoints. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00621
Mattermost versions 11.8.x <= 11.8.0, 11.7.x <= 11.7.3, 11.6.x <= 11.6.5, 10.11.x <= 10.11.20 fail to bound the time and resource consumption of server-side document content extraction which allows an authenticated user with file-upload permission to degrade file uploads for all users on the server via repeatedly uploading small documents that are cheap to upload but expensive to extract, saturating the shared extraction worker pool.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00694
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.5, 10.11.x <= 10.11.20, 11.8.x <= 11.8.1, 11.7.x <= 11.7.4 fail to limit the number of frames and enforce the file size cap on animated GIF uploads, which allows an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted animated GIF uploaded as a custom emoji.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00695
Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.2 5.5.13 6.0.2.0 fail to properly null check when checking for headers in the Mattermost Desktop App which allows any user to crash another channel members Desktop App via posting a malicious link with an embedded image that misses one of those headers. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00668
Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.2 6.0.2 5.6.13.0 fail to validate payloads sent from the Mattermost Web App to the Desktop App which allows a malicious server owner to crash the Mattermost Desktop App via changing the payload of a method to a malformed one. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00678
Mattermost versions 11.8.x <= 11.8.0, 11.7.x <= 11.7.3, 11.6.x <= 11.6.5, 10.11.x <= 10.11.20 fail to verify file deletion path which allows an admin with SAML system-console write permissions to delete arbitrary files outside the config directory from the server via the remove file endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00666
UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED Focalboard version 8.0 fails to sanitize category IDs before incorporating them into dynamic SQL statements when reordering categories. An attacker can inject a malicious SQL payload into the category id field, which is stored in the database and later executed unsanitized when the category reorder API processes the stored value. This Second-Order SQL Injection (Time-Based Blind) allows an authenticated attacker to exfiltrate sensitive data including password hashes of other users. NOTE: Focalboard as a standalone product is not maintained and no fix will be issued.
UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED Focalboard version 8.0 fails to validate file ownership when serving uploaded files. This allows an authenticated attacker who knows a victim's fileID to read the content of the file. NOTE: Focalboard as a standalone product is not maintained and no fix will be issued.
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to filter nil elements from outgoing webhook attachment payloads before processing, which allows an authenticated user to cause a denial of service (server process termination) via a crafted webhook callback response containing a null attachment entry.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00641
Mattermost versions 11.5.x <= 11.5.1 fail to validate team-level runcreate permission against the target team when creating a playbook run which allows an authenticated team member to create runs in teams where they lack permission via specifying a different team ID in the run creation API request. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00629
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to check integration URL for path traversal which allows an malicious authenticated user to call an arbitrary API via system admin Mattermost auth token using via path traversal in integration action URL.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00640
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to sanitize team member data when returned via API to users without elevated permissions which allows a user without permissions to get data about team members roles via invoking various team API endpoints.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00626
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to validate user-supplied input in API request handlers which allows an authenticated attacker to crash the plugin process via a crafted HTTP request to the PR details endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00638
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to validate file ownership and access control, which allows an authenticated user to access and download files belonging to other users or teams via crafted Boards API requests using valid file IDs.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00620
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.2, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to validate the TIFF IFD offset in the image header before allocating memory, which allows authenticated users with file upload or posting permissions to cause a denial of service (server OOM) via uploading a crafted TIFF file or posting a URL that serves one.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00648