CVE-2024-6428 Limited DoS due to permitting creating users with user-defined IDs
Attackers can create users with custom IDs, causing administrative functions to fail and resulting in limited denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-6428?
CVE-2024-6428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mattermost Mattermost, published on 3 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Mattermost versions 9.8.0, 9.7.x <= 9.7.4, 9.6.x <= 9.6.2, 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 fail to prevent specifying a RemoteId when creating a new user which allows an attacker to specify both a remoteId and the user ID, resulting in creating a user with a user-defined user ID. This can cause some broken functionality in User Management such administrative actions against the user not working.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6428?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mattermost Mattermost.
How do I fix CVE-2024-6428?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6428 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-6428 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6428 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2024-39274 Malicious remote can add users to arbitrary teams and channels
- CVE-2024-39777 Malicious remote can invite itself to an arbitrary local channel
- CVE-2024-39830 Timing attack during remote cluster token comparison when shared channels are enabled
- CVE-2023-3615 Lack of server certificate validation in websockets connection
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rvp5-8mrw-f62x.