CVE-2023-47865
Username and Icon override can be used by members when Hardened Mode is enabled
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Mattermost
Description
Mattermost fails to check if hardened mode is enabled when overriding the username and/or the icon when posting a post. If settings allowed integrations to override the username and profile picture when posting, a member could also override the username and icon when making a post even if the Hardened Mode setting was enabled
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 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 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 8.1.3
- affected ≤ 7.8.12
- unaffected 7.8.13
- unaffected 8.1.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6GHSA-jj46-9cgh-qmfx (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8GHSA-jj46-9cgh-qmfx (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update Mattermost Server to versions 7.8.13, 8.1.4 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-jj46-9cgh-qmfx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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