Mattermost fails to limit the log size of server logs allowing an attacker sending specially crafted requests to different endpoints to potentially overflow the log.
Mattermost versions 10.6.x <= 10.6.1, 10.5.x <= 10.5.2, 10.4.x <= 10.4.4, 9.11.x <= 9.11.11 fail to lockout LDAP users following repeated login failures, which allows attackers to lock external LDAP accounts through repeated login failures through Mattermost.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.10.1, 4.9.4, and 4.8.2. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a malformed link in a channel.
Mattermost versions 9.8.0, 9.7.x <= 9.7.4, 9.6.x <= 9.6.2, 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 fail to prevent specifying a RemoteId when creating a new user which allows an attacker to specify both a remoteId and the user ID, resulting in creating a user with a user-defined user ID. This can cause some broken functionality in User Management such administrative actions against the user not working.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.2.0, 4.1.1, and 4.0.5. It mishandles IP-based rate limiting.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.3.0, 4.2.1, and 4.1.2. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (channel invisibility) via a misformatted post.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.2.0, 4.1.1, and 4.0.5. It allows crafted posts that potentially cause a web browser to hang.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.2.0. It allowed crafted posts that could cause a web browser to hang.
Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.2 6.0.2 5.6.13.0 fail to validate payloads sent from the Mattermost Web App to the Desktop App which allows a malicious server owner to crash the Mattermost Desktop App via changing the payload of a method to a malformed one. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00678
Mattermost fails to unescape Markdown strings in a memory-efficient way, allowing an attacker to cause a Denial of Service by sending a message containing a large number of escaped characters.
Mattermost fails to properly truncate the postgres error log message of a search query failure allowing an attacker to cause the creation of large log files which can result in Denial of Service
Mattermost fails to validate links on external websites when constructing a preview for a linked website, allowing an attacker to cause a denial-of-service by a linking to a specially crafted webpage in a message.
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.2, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to validate the TIFF IFD offset in the image header before allocating memory, which allows authenticated users with file upload or posting permissions to cause a denial of service (server OOM) via uploading a crafted TIFF file or posting a URL that serves one.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00648
Mattermost Server versions 9.5.x before 9.5.2, 9.4.x before 9.4.4, 9.3.x before 9.3.3, 8.1.x before 8.1.11 don't limit the number of user preferences which allows an attacker to send a large number of user preferences potentially causing denial of service.
Resource Exhaustion in Mattermost Server versions 8.1.x before 8.1.10 fails to limit the size of the payload that can be read and parsed allowing an attacker to send a very large email payload and crash the server.
Mattermost fails to properly validate the length of the emoji value in the custom user status, allowing an attacker to send multiple times a very long string as an emoji value causing high resource consumption and possibly crashing the server.
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.10, 9.2.x before 9.2.6, 9.3.x before 9.3.2, and 9.4.x before 9.4.3 fail to limit the number of @-mentions processed per message, allowing an authenticated attacker to crash the client applications of other users via large, crafted messages.
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Mattermost Mobile versions before 2.13.0 fails to limit the size of the code block that will be processed by the syntax highlighter, allowing an attacker to send a very large code block and crash the mobile app.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 1.2.0. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a small compressed file that has a large size when uncompressed.
Mattermost versions 8.1.x <= 8.1.10, 9.6.x <= 9.6.0, 9.5.x <= 9.5.2 and 8.1.x <= 8.1.11 fail to limit the size of a request path that includes user inputs which allows an attacker to cause excessive resource consumption, possibly leading to a DoS via sending large request paths
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.9, 9.2.x before 9.2.5, 9.3.0, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 fail to limit the number of role names requested from the API, allowing an authenticated attacker to cause the server to run out of memory and crash by issuing an unusually large HTTP request.
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.15.0. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted characters in a SQL LIKE clause to an APIv4 endpoint.
Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobile app of a user seeing the post and to crash the server due to overloading when clients attempt to retrive the aforementioned post.
Mattermost fails to properly validate a RegExp built off the server URL path, allowing an attacker in control of an enrolled server to mount a Denial Of Service.
Mattermost Mobile fails to limit the maximum number of Markdown elements in a post allowing an attacker to send a post with hundreds of emojis to a channel and freeze the mobile app of users when viewing that particular channel.
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to enforce request body size limits on plugin HTTP endpoints which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted oversized HTTP requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00646
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.2.2, 5.1.2, and 4.10.4. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted image dimensions.
Mattermost fails to limit the amount of data extracted from compressed archives during board import in Mattermost Boards allowing an attacker to consume excessive resources, possibly leading to Denial of Service, by importing a board using a specially crafted zip (zip bomb).
Mattermost version 7.1.x and earlier fails to sufficiently process a specifically crafted GIF file when it is uploaded while drafting a post, which allows authenticated users to cause resource exhaustion while processing the file, resulting in server-side Denial of Service.
Mattermost version 7.0.x and earlier fails to sufficiently limit the in-memory sizes of concurrently uploaded JPEG images, which allows authenticated users to cause resource exhaustion on specific system configurations, resulting in server-side Denial of Service.
Mattermost versions 9.11.x <= 9.11.0 and 9.5.x <= 9.5.8 fail to validate that the message of the permalink post is a string, which allows an attacker to send a non-string value as the message of a permalink post and crash the frontend.
Mattermost fails to deduplicate input IDs allowing a simple user to cause the application to consume excessive resources and possibly crash by sending a specially crafted request to /api/v4/users/ids with multiple identical IDs.
Mattermost Plugin Channel Export versions <=1.0.0 fail to restrict concurrent runs of the /export command which allows a user to consume excessive resource by running the /export command multiple times at once.
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.
Mattermost versions 9.5.x <= 9.5.7 and 9.10.x <= 9.10.0 fail to time limit and size limit the CA path file in the ElasticSearch configuration which allows a System Role with access to the Elasticsearch system console to add any file as a CA path field, such as /dev/zero and, after testing the connection, cause the application to crash.
Mattermost Mobile app versions 2.13.0 and earlier use a regular expression with polynomial complexity to parse certain deeplinks, which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to freeze or crash the app via a long maliciously crafted link.
Mattermost fails to enforce a limit for the size of the cache entry for OpenGraph data allowing an attacker to send a specially crafted request to the /api/v4/opengraph filling the cache and turning the server unavailable.
Mattermost fails to enforce character limits in all possible notification props allowing an attacker to send a really long value for a notification_prop resulting in the server consuming an abnormal quantity of computing resources and possibly becoming temporarily unavailable for its users.
The legacy Slack import feature in Mattermost version 6.7.0 and earlier fails to properly limit the sizes of imported files, which allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server by importing large files via the Slack import REST API.
Mattermost Plugins versions <=11.4 11.0.4 11.1.3 11.3.2 10.11.11.0 fail to validate incoming request size which allows an authenticated attacker to cause service disruption via the webhook endpoint. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00589
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Mattermost version 6.6.0 and earlier allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server via a crafted SVG attachment on a post.
Mattermost fails to handle a null request body in the /add endpoint, allowing a simple member to send a request with null request body to that endpoint and make it crash. After a few repetitions, the plugin is disabled.
Mattermost versions 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1, 11.2.x <= 11.2.3, 10.11.x <= 10.11.11 fail to rate limit login requests which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service (server crash and restart) via HTTP/2 single packet attack with 100+ parallel login requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00566
Mattermost fails to to check the length when setting the title in a run checklist in Playbooks, allowing an attacker to send a specially crafted request and crash the Playbooks plugin
The image proxy component in Mattermost version 6.4.1 and earlier allocates memory for multiple copies of a proxied image, which allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server via links to very large image files.
Mattermost fails to properly validate a gif image file, allowing an attacker to consume a significant amount of server resources, making the server unresponsive for an extended period of time by linking to specially crafted image file.
Mattermost Boards fail to properly validate a board link, allowing an attacker to crash a channel by posting a specially crafted boards link.
Mattermost fails to properly validate markdown, allowing an attacker to crash the server via a specially crafted markdown input.
Mattermost 6.2 and earlier fails to sufficiently process a specifically crafted GIF file when it is uploaded while drafting a post, which allows authenticated users to cause resource exhaustion while processing the file, resulting in server-side Denial of Service.
Mattermost fails to properly limit the characters allowed in different fields of a block in Mattermost Boards allowing a attacker to consume excessive resources, possibly leading to Denial of Service, by patching the field of a block using a specially crafted string.