CVE-2026-6689*Missing* {{invite_user}} *permission check on team creation allows unprivileged users to set open-invite and allowed-domains team settings*
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.15%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 96% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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 enforce PermissionInviteUser when setting AllowOpenInvite or AllowedDomains during team creation (the check was only applied on update/patch), which allows an authenticated user holding PermissionCreateTeam but not PermissionInviteUser on the resulting team to configure invite-controlled team settings (make the team publicly joinable via open invite and/or constrain membership via allowed domains) that they are not permitted to set on an existing team via POST /api/v4/teams with allow_open_invite: true and/or a non-empty allowed_domains in the request body.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00655
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 53 days later
· 53 days 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 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (12 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 4.3.
Affected products
- affected 11.6.0 – ≤ 11.6.1
- affected 11.5.0 – ≤ 11.5.4
- affected 10.11.0 – ≤ 10.11.15
- affected 10.11.0 – ≤ 10.11.16
- unaffected 11.7.0
- unaffected 11.6.2
- unaffected 11.5.5
- unaffected 10.11.16
- unaffected 10.11.17
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-serverGHSA-c28q-m4gf-vg4q (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8GHSA-c28q-m4gf-vg4q (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update Mattermost to versions 11.7.0, 11.6.2, 11.5.5, 10.11.16, 10.11.17 or higher.
References
References1
- MMSA-2026-00655 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-36501 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c28q-m4gf-vg4q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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