CVE-2023-2515mediumCWE-863

CVE-2023-2515: medium-severity vulnerability in Mattermost

Privilege escalation to system admin via personal access tokens

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.7epss 0.5%
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Mattermost · Mattermost
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