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CVE-2023-5196

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5196 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mattermost, where the server fails to enforce character limits in notification properties. An attacker can send excessively long values, causing the server to consume abnormal computing resources and potentially become temporarily unavailable. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires low privileges, leading to high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, <= 7.8.9CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0, <= 8.0.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.8.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.1.0, < 8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8Fixed in: 8.1.1
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8Fixed in: 8.0.2
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6Fixed in: 7.8.10

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-33r7-wjfc-7w98medium

Mattermost Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Sep 29, 2023

References

mattermost.com / security-updates
Vendor Advisory