Mattermost is grouping calls in the /metrics endpoint by id and reports that id in the response. Since this id is the channelID, the public /metrics endpoint is revealing channelIDs.

Mattermost allows an attacker to request a preview of an existing message when creating a new message via the createPost API call, disclosing the contents of the linked message.

Mattermost fails to perform authorization checks in the /plugins/playbooks/api/v0/runs/add-to-timeline-dialog endpoint of the Playbooks plugin allowing an attacker to get limited information about a post if they know the post ID

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.3.0, 4.2.1, and 4.1.2. It discloses the team creator's e-mail address to members.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.1.0, 4.0.4, and 3.10.3. It allows attackers to discover team invite IDs via team API endpoints.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.1.0, 4.0.4, and 3.10.3. It allows attackers to discover a team invite ID by requesting a JSON document.

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 and 9.8.0 fail to properly sanitize the recipients of a webhook event which allows an attacker monitoring webhook events to retrieve the channel IDs of archived or restored channels.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.2.0. The initial_load API disclosed unnecessary personal information.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.0.0. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information about team URLs via an API.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.12.0. Use of a Proxy HTTP header, rather than the source address in an IP packet header, for obtaining IP address information was mishandled.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Mobile Apps before 1.26.0. Local logging is not blocked for sensitive information (e.g., server addresses or message content).

Mattermost 6.0.2 and earlier fails to sufficiently sanitize user's password in audit logs when user creation fails.

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

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Mobile Apps before 1.26.0. Cookie data can persist on a device after a logout.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.16.1, 5.15.2, 5.14.5, and 5.9.6. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information (local files) during legacy attachment migration.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.9.0, 5.8.1, 5.7.3, and 4.10.8. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information about whether someone has 2FA enabled.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.18.0. It has weak permissions for server-local file storage.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.18.0, 5.17.2, 5.16.4, 5.15.4, and 5.9.7. There are weak permissions for configuration files.

Mattermost Boards plugin v0.10.0 and earlier fails to invalidate a session on the server-side when a user logged out of Boards, which allows an attacker to reuse old session token for authorization.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Mobile Apps before 1.26.0. A view cache can persist on a device after a logout.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.8.0. It does not always generate a robots.txt file.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.15.0. Login access control can be bypassed via crafted input.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.9.0, 5.8.1, 5.7.3, and 4.10.8. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information during a role change.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.4.0. It mishandles possession of superfluous authentication credentials.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.20.0. Non-members can receive broadcasted team details via the update_team WebSocket event, aka MMSA-2020-0012.

Mattermost fails to normalize UTF confusable characters when determining if a preview should be generated for a hyperlink, allowing an attacker to trigger link preview on a disallowed domain using a specially crafted link.

Mattermost versions 10.7.x <= 10.7.0, 10.6.x <= 10.6.2, 10.5.x <= 10.5.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.12 fail to properly validate permissions when changing team privacy settings, allowing team administrators without the 'invite user' permission to access and modify team invite IDs via the /api/v4/teams/:teamId/privacy endpoint.

A call stack overflow bug in the SAML login feature in Mattermost server in versions up to and including 6.3.2 allows an attacker to crash the server via submitting a maliciously crafted POST body.

Mattermost versions 10.x <= 10.2 fail to accurately reflect missing settings, which allows confusion for admins regarding a Calls security-sensitive configuration via incorrect UI reporting.

Mattermost fails to properly check the creator of an attached file when adding the file to a draft post, potentially exposing unauthorized file information.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.8.2, 3.7.5, and 3.6.7. Weak hashing was used for e-mail invitations, OAuth, and e-mail verification tokens.

Mattermost versions 9.11.x <= 9.11.6 fail to filter out DMs from the deleted channels endpoint which allows an attacker to infer user IDs and other metadata from deleted DMs if someone had manually marked DMs as deleted in the database.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.0.0. It does not ensure that a cookie is used over SSL.

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.8.0 fail to safeguard screen capture functionality which allows an attacker to silently capture high-quality screenshots via JavaScript APIs.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Mobile Apps before 1.29.0. The iOS app allowed Single Sign-On cookies and Local Storage to remain after a logout, aka MMSA-2020-0013.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.19.0. Attackers can discover private channels via the "get channel by name" API, aka MMSA-2020-0004.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.21.0. mmctl allows directory traversal via HTTP, aka MMSA-2020-0014.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Mobile Apps before 1.31.2 on iOS. Unintended third-party servers could sometimes obtain authorization tokens, aka MMSA-2020-0022.

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.2.0. Attackers could read LDAP fields via injection.

Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.3, 9.7.x <= 9.7.1 and 8.1.x <= 8.1.12 fail to perform a proper authorization check in the /api/v4/groups/<group-id>/channels/<channel-id>/link endpoint which allows a user to learn the members of an AD/LDAP group that is linked to a team by adding the group to a channel, even if the user has no access to the team.

Mattermost fails to properly authorize the requests fetching team associated AD/LDAP groups, allowing a user to fetch details of AD/LDAP groups of a team that they are not a member of. 

Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to validate that a username returned during bot registration belongs to a bot account, which allows an unprivileged attacker to intercept private messages sent by plugins via direct message channels by pre-registering a user account with a predictable plugin bot username.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00649

When running in a High Availability configuration, Mattermost fails to sanitize some of the user_updated and post_deleted events broadcast to all users, leading to disclosure of sensitive information to some of the users with currently connected Websocket clients.

Mattermost fails to redact from audit logs the user password during user creation and the user password hash in other operations if the experimental audit logging configuration was enabled (ExperimentalAuditSettings section in config).

Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to restrict role_updated websocket event broadcasts to members of the affected team or channel which allows an authenticated attacker with guest-level access to observe permission scheme change notifications for private teams they are not a member of via the websocket connection.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00616

Mattermost fails to scope the WebSocket response around notified users to a each user separately resulting in the WebSocket broadcasting the information about who was notified about a post to everyone else in the channel.

Mattermost versions 10.0.x <= 10.0.0 and 9.11.x <= 9.11.2 fail to properly query ElasticSearch when searching for the channel name in channel switcher which allows an attacker to get private channels names of channels that they are not a member of, when Elasticsearch v8 was enabled.

Mattermost Plugins versions <=2.0.3.0 fail to properly mask sensitive configuration values which allows an attacker with access to support packets to obtain original plugin settings via exported configuration data. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00606

Mattermost fails to check whether the  “Allow users to view archived channels”  setting is enabled during permalink previews display, allowing members to view permalink previews of archived channels even if the “Allow users to view archived channels” setting is disabled. 

The Guest account feature in Mattermost version 6.7.0 and earlier fails to properly restrict the permissions, which allows a guest user to fetch a list of all public channels in the team, in spite of not being part of those channels.