Bug 2277346 (CVE-2024-4183)

Summary: CVE-2024-4183 mattermost: fail to limit the number of active sessions
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, gparvin, jburrell, lbainbri, njean, owatkins, pahickey, rhaigner, sidakwo, vkumar
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A flaw was found in Mattermost, where it fails to limit the number of active sessions. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server via repeated requests to the getSessions API after flooding the sessions table.
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Bug Depends On: 2277347, 2277348    
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Description Rohit Keshri 2024-04-26 12:04:36 UTC
Mattermost versions 8.1.x before 8.1.12, 9.6.x before 9.6.1, 9.5.x before 9.5.3, 9.4.x before 9.4.5 fail to limit the number of active sessions, which allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server via repeated requests to the getSessions API after flooding the sessions table.

https://mattermost.com/security-updates

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-04-26 12:07:36 UTC
Created purple-mattermost tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2277347]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2277348]