GHSA-8qq9-cqj8-82w4HighCVSS 7.6
Mattermost doesn't sanitize FileInfo.Name received from federated peers during shared channel file sync
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to sanitize FileInfo.Name received from federated peers during shared channel file sync, which allows an attacker who controls a federated server to write files to arbitrary locations within the target server's filestore via path traversal sequences in the filename field. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00661
🎯 Affected products4
- go/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server:= 11.6.0
- go/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server:>= 11.5.0, <= 11.5.4
- go/github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server:>= 10.11.0, <= 10.11.15
- go/github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8:>= 8.0.0-20250731163400-5b955468ea1e, < 8.0.0-20260423180926-c021eeaff8f0
🔗 References (17)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6961
- https://mattermost.com/security-updates
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/pull/36223
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/pull/36251
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/pull/36252
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/pull/36253
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/pull/36255
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/61d68d2d6ee81a5919597d91c736c502d7156859
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/a0056ed68d95f64d7c4586985e7b7f16b96b3bec
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/a9f3868e1eee9ec61855cd7277f39937385efffd
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/c021eeaff8f003034ab40f82c552cc26a710a8fd
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/c896a63dc44c2f9c081a0a15bfddc4e6eb50e753
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/releases/tag/v10.11.16
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/releases/tag/v11.5.5
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/releases/tag/v11.6.2
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/releases/tag/v11.7.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qq9-cqj8-82w4