CVE-2026-4635
Persistent notification timing attack causing server denial of service
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Mattermost
Description
Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to archive the channel before removing persistent notifications which allows authenticated user to crash the server via timing the creation of persistent notification message between the server deleting existing persistent notifications and archiving the channel.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00637
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.17% · top 93% of all CVEs (9 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: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 11.6.0 – ≤ 11.6.0
- affected 11.5.0 – ≤ 11.5.3
- affected 11.4.0 – ≤ 11.4.4
- affected 10.11.0 – ≤ 10.11.14
- unaffected 11.7.0
- unaffected 11.6.1
- unaffected 11.5.4
- unaffected 11.4.5
- unaffected 10.11.15
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-serverGHSA-pg7c-462j-grxv (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update Mattermost to versions 11.7.0, 11.6.1, 11.5.4, 11.4.5, 10.11.15 or higher.
References (1)
- MMSA-2026-00637 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pg7c-462j-grxv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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