CVE-2025-6465 Path traversal in image upload with preview overwrite

What is CVE-2025-6465?

CVE-2025-6465 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mattermost Mattermost Server, published on 21 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Mattermost versions 10.8.x <= 10.8.3, 10.5.x <= 10.5.8, 10.10.x <= 10.10.0, 10.9.x <= 10.9.3 fail to sanitize file names which allows users with file upload permission to overwrite file attachment thumbnails via path traversal in file streaming APIs.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6465?

14 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server, github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5 and github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6. It affects 1 product.

Products include Mattermost Mattermost Server.

How do I fix CVE-2025-6465?

Upgrade github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server to a fixed version for your release line: 10.10.1, 10.5.9, 10.5.9+incompatible or 10.8.4+incompatible.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-6465 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mattermost Mattermost Server

• CVE-2025-12419 Account takeover on OAuth/OpenID-enabled servers Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-12421 Account Takeover via Code Exchange Endpoint Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-4981 Path Traversal Leading to RCE by Any Authenticated Mattermost User Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-20051 Arbitrary file read via block duplication in Mattermost Boards Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-25279 Arbitrary file read in Mattermost Boards via import & export board archive Critical 9.9

All Mattermost Mattermost Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pj6f-rc94-gw53, GO-2025-3910.