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Status published
Medium
CVE-2023-2515
Privilege escalation to system admin via personal access tokens
Vulnerability Description
Mattermost fails to restrict a user with permissions to edit other users and to create personal access tokens from elevating their privileges to system admin
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Eva Sarafianou
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
Mattermost
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 7.1.8, 7.7.4, 7.8.3, 7.9.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 12th, 2023
Last Modified:
December 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L