Mattermost 8.18.1.11 9.69.6.0 9.59.5.2 Crash via Unlimited getSessions Flood
CVE-2024-4183 Published on April 26, 2024
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.12, 9.6.x before 9.6.1, 9.5.x before 9.5.3, 9.4.x before 9.4.5 fail to limit the number of active sessions, which allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server via repeated requests to the getSessions API after flooding the sessions table.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-4183 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2024-4183 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-4183
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Affected Versions
Mattermost:- Version 9.6.0, <= 8.1.10 is affected.
- Version 9.5.0, <= 9.5.2 is affected.
- Version 9.4.0, <= 9.4.4 is affected.
- Version 8.1.0, <= 8.1.11 is affected.
- Version 9.7.0, <= 8.1.11 is unaffected.
- Version 9.6.1 is unaffected.
- Version 9.5.3 is unaffected.
- Version 9.4.5 is unaffected.
- Version 8.1.12 is unaffected.
- Version 9.6.0 is affected.
- Version - is affected.
- Version 9.4.0 is affected.
- Version 8.1.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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