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GHSA-247X-7QW8-FP98

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-25 18:31 – Updated: 2026-04-06 17:31

Summary

Mattermost doesn't rate limit login requests, allowing DoS

Details

Mattermost versions 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1, 11.2.x <= 11.2.3, 10.11.x <= 10.11.11 fail to rate limit login requests which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service (server crash and restart) via HTTP/2 single packet attack with 100+ parallel login requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00566

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium)


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

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  "details": "Mattermost versions 11.4.x \u003c= 11.4.0, 11.3.x \u003c= 11.3.1, 11.2.x \u003c= 11.2.3, 10.11.x \u003c= 10.11.11 fail to rate limit login requests which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service (server crash and restart) via HTTP/2 single packet attack with 100+ parallel login requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00566",
  "id": "GHSA-247x-7qw8-fp98",
  "modified": "2026-04-06T17:31:46Z",
  "published": "2026-03-25T18:31:52Z",
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  ],
  "summary": "Mattermost doesn\u0027t rate limit login requests, allowing DoS"
}

CVE-2026-26233 (GCVE-0-2026-26233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 16:24 – Updated: 2026-03-27 14:59

Title

Denial of Service via HTTP/2 single packet attack on login endpoint

Summary

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

Mattermost

References

URL

Tags

https://mattermost.com/security-updates

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mattermost	Mattermost	Affected: 11.4.0 , ≤ 11.4.0 (semver) Affected: 11.3.0 , ≤ 11.3.1 (semver) Affected: 11.2.0 , ≤ 11.2.3 (semver) Affected: 10.11.0 , ≤ 10.11.11 (semver) Unaffected: 11.5.0 Unaffected: 11.4.1 Unaffected: 11.3.2 Unaffected: 11.2.4 Unaffected: 10.11.12

Credits

Axel Larsson & Jakob Ristner

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-247X-7QW8-FP98

CVE-2026-26233 (GCVE-0-2026-26233)

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