CVE-2023-50333 (GCVE-0-2023-50333)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-02 09:53 – Updated: 2025-06-17 13:35
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Lack of restriction to manage group names for freshly demoted guests
Summary
Mattermost fails to update the permissions of the current session for a user who was just demoted to guest, allowing freshly demoted guests to change group names.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-25 20:50 UTC
CWE
- CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattermost | Mattermost |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 9.2.2
(semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 8.1.6 (semver) Unaffected: 8.1.7 |
guessed |
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