CVE-2023-4107
Incorrect authorization allows a user manager to update a system admin
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Mattermost
Description
Mattermost fails to properly validate the requesting user permissions when updating a system admin, allowing a user manager to update a system admin's details such as email, first name and last name.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| MattermostCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 7.8.7
- affected ≤ 7.9.5
- affected ≤ 7.10.3
- unaffected 7.8.8
- unaffected 7.9.6
- unaffected 7.10.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6GHSA-6xjj-v76v-fwpj (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update Mattermost Server to versions 7.8.8, 7.9.6, 7.10.4 or higher.
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6xjj-v76v-fwpj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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