CVE-2025-9079 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-9079

Admin RCE via prepackaged plugins by way of misconfigured imports directory

Vulnerability Description

Mattermost versions 10.8.x <= 10.8.3, 10.5.x <= 10.5.8, 9.11.x <= 9.11.17, 10.10.x <= 10.10.1, 10.9.x <= 10.9.3 fail to validate import directory path configuration which allows admin users to execute arbitrary code via malicious plugin upload to prepackaged plugins directory

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:

  • daw10

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Mattermost
Vulnerable Versions:
10.8.0, 10.5.0, 9.11.0, 10.10.0, 10.9.0, 10.11.0, 10.8.4, 10.5.9, 9.11.18, 10.10.2, 10.9.4

Timeline

Official Publish: September 19th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact