Mattermost Desktop: Improper Permission Handling Allows Media Exploitation
CVE-2023-5875 Published on November 2, 2023
Lack of Hardening against media exploitation from a remote origin
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-5875 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
Protection Mechanism Failure
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-5875
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Affected Versions
Mattermost Desktop:- Before and including 5.5.0 is affected.
- Version 5.5.1 is unaffected.
Exploit Probability
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