SCA: security update for github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 (GHSA-32h7-7j94-8fc2)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409205

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the
amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-
existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobile app of a user seeing the post and to crash the server
due to overloading when clients attempt to retrive the aforementioned post. (CVE-2024-1402)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-32h7-7j94-8fc2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409205

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1402

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1402

cwe: CWE-400