CVE-2024-24975 Denial of Service for mobile app users due to automatic code highlighting
An attacker can crash the Mattermost mobile app by sending excessively large code blocks, causing uncontrolled resource consumption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-24975?
CVE-2024-24975 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mattermost Mobile, published on 15 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Mattermost Mobile versions before 2.13.0 fails to limit the size of the code block that will be processed by the syntax highlighter, allowing an attacker to send a very large code block and crash the mobile app.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24975?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mattermost Mattermost Mobile.
How do I fix CVE-2024-24975?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-24975 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-24975 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24975 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mattermost Mobile
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8jjg-p984-x7q6.