CVE-2024-1402

MEDIUM

Mattermost < 8.1.7 and < 8.1.8 - Denial of Service via Custom Emoji Reaction Overload

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

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