CVE-2026-24458

HIGH

DoS attack via login attempts with multi-megabyte passwords

Title source: cna

Description

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to properly handle very long passwords, which allows an attacker to overload the server CPU and memory via executing login attempts with multi-megabyte passwords. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00587

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://mattermost.com/security-updates

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Products (10)

mattermost/mattermost 0 - 8.0.0-20260129164748-7201f42d955fGo

Mattermost/Mattermost 10.11.0 - 10.11.10

Mattermost/Mattermost 10.11.11

Mattermost/Mattermost 11.2.0 - 11.2.2

Mattermost/Mattermost 11.2.3

Mattermost/Mattermost 11.3.0

Mattermost/Mattermost 11.3.1

Mattermost/Mattermost 11.4.0

mattermost/mattermost-server 0 - 5.3.2-0.20260129164748-7201f42d955fGo

mattermost/mattermost_server 10.11.0 - 10.11.11

Published Mar 16, 2026

Tracked Since Mar 16, 2026