Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privilege Mattermost user
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DeliverySubmit link invoking local image proxy direct fetch
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ExploitServer fetches attacker-controlled oversized image response
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ExecutionUnbounded response buffered in memory (CWE-770)
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ImpactServer memory exhausted, denial of service
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource allocation limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the Mattermost local image proxy performing direct remote image fetches is in use, and that an authenticated user (PR:L) can cause the server to proxy-fetch a remote image from an attacker-controlled endpoint; the attacker then returns an oversized image response that is buffered in memory without a size limit. Limiting factors: a valid low-privilege account is required (not fully unauthenticated), the server must be configured to perform direct image-proxy fetches of remote images, and the instance must run an affected version (11.7.x≤11.7.9, 11.8.x≤11.8.5, 11.9.x≤11.9.1, or 11.10.x≤11.10.0). Impact is limited to availability (server memory exhaustion); no data disclosure or modification occurs. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity availability issue (CVSS 6.5) rather than a top-tier priority. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity attack requiring low privileges (PR:L = an authenticated user) with no user interaction, impacting availability only (A:H) with no confidentiality or integrity effect - consistent with CWE-770 uncontrolled resource consumption leading to memory exhaustion. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC was provided in the input; per precision rules this means no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and there is no evidence of active exploitation. The practical risk is a denial-of-service against the Mattermost server, not data compromise. The PR:L requirement meaningfully limits exposure to actors who hold valid (even low-privilege) accounts, so internet-facing but authentication-gated instances face a lower real-world threat than the network attack vector alone suggests. Overall this is a legitimate but non-urgent patching priority: credible, vendor-reported, and trivially triggerable by any authenticated user, but bounded to availability impact with no confirmed exploitation. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated user on a vulnerable Mattermost server posts or triggers a link that causes the server's local image proxy to directly fetch a remote image from an attacker-controlled host. The attacker's server returns a crafted, oversized image response that Mattermost buffers entirely in memory, exhausting server RAM and degrading or crashing the service. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and the low attack complexity (AC:L) means no special timing or conditions are needed once the proxy fetch is invoked. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 16, 2026
Memory exhaustion in Mattermost (versions 11.10.x through 11.10.0, 11.7.x through 11.7.9, 11.8.x through 11.8.5, and 11.9.x through 11.9.1) allows an authenticated, low-privilege user to drive the server to buffer an arbitrarily large remote image response in memory by making the local image proxy perform a direct fetch from an attacker-controlled endpoint, degrading or crashing the instance. The defect is a missing size limit on the buffered response (CWE-770), and impact is confined to availability - there is no confidentiality or integrity loss, and no data disclosure or modification occurs. Rated CVSS 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H); exploitation requires a valid low-privilege account and a configuration in which the local image proxy performs direct remote image fetches, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though a structured advisory (MMSA-2026-00726) is published.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patched version is identified in the provided data, so the immediate action is to check the Mattermost security updates page at https://mattermost.com/security-updates (advisory MMSA-2026-00726) for the release that supersedes the affected ceilings of 11.10.0, 11.7.9, 11.8.5, and 11.9.1 and upgrade to it; because the vulnerability is a missing response-size limit rather than a configuration error, patching is the only complete fix. Where an upgrade cannot be scheduled immediately, the most effective compensating control is to stop the server from performing unbounded direct remote image fetches - disable or turn off the local image proxy's remote-fetch behavior, or constrain it to an allowlist of trusted image hosts so user-supplied arbitrary URLs are never fetched; the trade-off is that legitimate inline images from external sites will no longer render through the proxy and may break or degrade for end users. If remote fetching must remain enabled, restrict outbound egress from the Mattermost server to an approved set of destinations so attacker-controlled endpoints are unreachable, and enforce per-container memory limits (for example cgroup or Kubernetes resource limits) with restart-on-OOM policies so an oversized response degrades a single worker rather than the host - noting this converts a crash into a restart loop rather than preventing the resource spike. Additionally, tighten account provisioning so untrusted parties cannot obtain low-privilege accounts, and monitor server memory and image-proxy fetch logs for anomalous response sizes as an early-warning signal.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw sits in Mattermost's image proxy - specifically the code path that performs direct remote image fetches when the local image proxy handles a client-supplied remote image URL. Rather than streaming or enforcing a cap on the fetched body, the response is buffered in memory without any limit on its size, which places it in the CWE-770 class (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling). An attacker who controls the remote endpoint referenced by an image URL can therefore return a deliberately oversized image body and force unbounded heap consumption on the Mattermost application server, exhausting memory and affecting availability. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H confirms a network-reachable, low-complexity, authenticated-trigger path with a pure availability impact and no scope change; PR:L indicates the attacker must hold a low-privileged account rather than being fully unauthenticated. CPE data identifies the affected package broadly as cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, and because the vulnerable logic is generic response-buffering code rather than a version-specific integration, all branches listed in the advisory share the same root cause.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Network-reachable image-proxy fetch triggerable by any authenticated low-privilege user (PR:L) with no interaction; impact is memory-exhaustion DoS only, so C:N/I:N/A:H.
Primary rating from Vendor (Mattermost).
CVSS VectorVendor: Mattermost
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 limit the size of remote image responses buffered in memory during local image proxy direct fetches, which allows a remote attacker to cause memory exhaustion on the server via a crafted oversized image response.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00726
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Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
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