CVE-2024-1402
MEDIUMMattermost < 8.1.7 and < 8.1.8 - Denial of Service via Custom Emoji Reaction Overload
Title source: llmDescription
Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobile app of a user seeing the post and to crash the server due to overloading when clients attempt to retrive the aforementioned post.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://mattermost.com/security-updates
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
51.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (2)
mattermost/mattermost
0 - 8.1.8Go
mattermost/mattermost_server
< 8.1.7
Published
Feb 09, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026