cve-2023-2831
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-16 09:06
Modified
2024-12-06 22:59
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
Mattermost fails to unescape Markdown strings in a memory-efficient way, allowing an attacker to cause a Denial of Service by sending a message containing a large number of escaped characters.
References
responsibledisclosure@mattermost.comhttps://mattermost.com/security-updates/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mattermost.com/security-updates/Vendor Advisory
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