CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-1402

MediumCVSS 4.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Mattermost fails to check whether a custom emoji reaction exists and does not limit the number of custom emojis added to a post. An attacker can send a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis to crash a user's mobile app and overload the server when clients retrieve the post.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash users' mobile apps and destabilize the Mattermost server.

Recommendation

Update Mattermost to a patched version and consider limiting emoji reactions per post.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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. 

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS