CVE-2024-28053Resource Exhaustion via the Invitation Feature
- 3.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.51%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 56% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Resource Exhaustion in Mattermost Server versions 8.1.x before 8.1.10 fails to limit the size of the payload that can be read and parsed allowing an attacker to send a very large email payload and crash the server.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| MattermostCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.
Affected products
- affected 8.1.0 – ≤ 8.1.9
- unaffected 9.5.0
- unaffected 8.1.10
Affected packages
Affected packages4
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-serverGHSA-qqc8-rv37-79q5 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5GHSA-qqc8-rv37-79q5 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6GHSA-qqc8-rv37-79q5 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8GHSA-qqc8-rv37-79q5 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update Mattermost Server to versions 9.5.0, 8.1.10 or higher.
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-1049 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qqc8-rv37-79q5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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