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Mattermost EUVDEUVD-2026-102749

| CVE-2026-18256 MEDIUM
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
2026-10-16 Mattermost GHSA-mqc4-5px9-95jm
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Mattermost
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged user
  2. Exploit
    Craft modified team search request
  3. Execution
    Bypass private-team authorization filter
  4. Impact
    Disclose private team IDs and names

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires a valid authenticated Mattermost account that lacks the permission to list private teams (PR:L). The attacker must issue a modified/crafted team-search request against the server's team search functionality to have private teams returned in public search results. Limiting factors: exploitation is capped at disclosure of private team metadata (ID, name, display name) only - no message content, membership, or credentials are exposed - and an attacker must already possess network access and a working user session, so fully unauthenticated external exploitation is not possible. Affects Mattermost 11.7.x ≤ 11.7.9, 11.8.x ≤ 11.8.5, 11.9.x ≤ 11.9.1, and 11.10.x ≤ 11.10.0.

Impact

This is a low-severity information-disclosure issue (CVSS 4.3) and should be triaged accordingly, not as a high priority. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) is internally consistent and matches the description: a network-reachable, low-complexity attack requiring an existing authenticated low-privileged account, yielding only limited confidentiality impact (team metadata) with no integrity or availability impact. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active or imminent exploitation. The only signal elevating attention is the authorization bypass (CWE-863) itself, but the impact ceiling is low - leakage of private team IDs, names, and display names, not message content or credentials. No signals conflict; all available data points converge on a genuine-but-minor confidentiality defect. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag is misleading: this is a broken-authorization flaw against already-authenticated users, not an authentication bypass.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated low-privileged Mattermost user who lacks permission to list private teams submits a modified team-search request and receives private teams in the results. This lets them enumerate the ID, name, and display name of private teams they were never meant to see, aiding reconnaissance of the organization's internal structure. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 16, 2026

Private team metadata in Mattermost Server can be enumerated by any authenticated user who lacks the permission to list private teams, because the team search functionality fails to exclude private teams from public search results. An attacker with a valid low-privileged account can send a modified team-search request and retrieve the ID, name, and display name of private teams they are not authorized to see. The issue affects Mattermost 11.7.x through 11.7.9, 11.8.x through 11.8.5, 11.9.x through 11.9.1, and 11.10.x through 11.10.0, and is rated low severity (CVSS 3.1 4.3, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) with only metadata disclosure - no message content, membership lists, or credentials are exposed; no public exploit was identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

No fixed release version is stated in the available data, so administrators should consult the Mattermost security advisory at https://mattermost.com/security-updates (MMSA-2026-00748) and upgrade the server, including any mobile and desktop clients pointed at it, to the patched release for the 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, or 11.10 branch as soon as it is published - patch status must be confirmed against the vendor advisory rather than assumed. Because exploitation requires an authenticated account, the most effective compensating controls are tightening account provisioning and deactivating stale or unnecessary users (side effect: reduced access for legitimate users who no longer need accounts), and reviewing any custom integrations or API tokens that carry broad team-read scopes for unnecessary privileges. Where feasible, restrict network reachability of the Mattermost server to trusted networks or a VPN (trade-off: forces remote staff onto the corporate tunnel and complicates mobile access), and enable and monitor audit logging for anomalous or high-volume team search requests so that post-patch scans for private-team enumeration can be detected. Disabling or restricting the team search feature itself is possible only through custom server modification and would degrade normal user navigation, so it is not recommended as a primary mitigation for this low-severity metadata disclosure.

Affected VersionsENISA

Mattermost 11.9.0 ≤11.9.1
Mattermost 11.10.0 ≤11.10.0
Mattermost 11.7.0 ≤11.7.9
Mattermost 11.8.0 ≤11.8.5

Affected Packages

euvd mattermost no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization): Mattermost's team-search path did not enforce the same private-team visibility checks applied elsewhere in the product, so a search request scoped to public teams could be modified to return private-team records. The affected component is the Mattermost server's team search endpoint, reachable over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N), but requiring a valid authenticated session (PR:L) that specifically lacks private-team listing rights. The vulnerability is confined to confidentiality impact on team-level objects (C:L) - the returned fields are limited to the team ID, name, and display name - with no integrity or availability effect (I:N/A:N). The CPE cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* identifies the Mattermost server as the affected product family, and the vendor tracks the issue as advisory MMSA-2026-00748. Because exploitation depends on a legitimate session plus the ability to craft the search request, this is not remotely exploitable by unauthenticated outsiders, and the practical impact is reconnaissance and information gathering about an organization's internal team structure.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Mattermost) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Authenticated low-privileged user (PR:L) sends a crafted search over the network (AV:N/AC:L) for limited metadata disclosure, so C:L and I/A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Mattermost).

CVSS VectorVendor: Mattermost

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Mattermost versions 11.10.x <= 11.10.0, 11.7.x <= 11.7.9, 11.9.x <= 11.9.1, 11.8.x <= 11.8.5 fail to properly restrict private teams from public team search results, which allows an authenticated user without permission to list private teams to disclose the ID, name, and display name of private teams via a modified team search request. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00748

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 95% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
widely-used open-source team collaboration platform, common but not ubiquitous
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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