CVE-2023-49809 (GCVE-0-2023-49809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-12 08:20 – Updated: 2024-08-02 22:01
VLAI
Title
Todo plugin gets crashed and disabled by member
Summary
Mattermost fails to handle a null request body in the /add endpoint, allowing a simple member to send a request with null request body to that endpoint and make it crash. After a few repetitions, the plugin is disabled.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mattermost Mattermost Affected: 0 , ≤ 8.1.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 8.1.6
Unaffected: 9.2.0
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Credits
Ben Schumacher
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