CVE-2024-24988 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-24988

Excessive resource consumption when sending long emoji names in user custom status

Vulnerability Description

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.

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:

  • Gian Klug (coderion)

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Mattermost
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 9.4.0, 9.3.1, 9.2.5, 8.1.9

Timeline

Official Publish: February 29th, 2024
Last Modified: August 1st, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)