CVE-2026-24458 (GCVE-0-2026-24458)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-16 12:02 – Updated: 2026-03-16 13:49
VLAI
Title
DoS attack via login attempts with multi-megabyte passwords
Summary
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-16 13:41 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
URL Tags
https://mattermost.com/security-updates vendor-advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mattermost Mattermost Affected: 11.3.0 , ≤ 11.3.0 (semver)
Affected: 11.2.0 , ≤ 11.2.2 (semver)
Affected: 10.11.0 , ≤ 10.11.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 11.4.0
Unaffected: 11.3.1
Unaffected: 11.2.3
Unaffected: 10.11.11
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