CVE-2026-6961CVE-2026-6961: Path traversal via unsanitized FileInfo.Name in Mattermost federation sync
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 76% 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 Mattermost fails to sanitize FileInfo.Name received from federated peers during shared channel file sync, which allows an attacker who controls a federated server to write files to arbitrary locations within the target server's filestore via path traversal sequences in the filename field.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00661
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 4 days later
· 4 days 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 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 76% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
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-8qq9-cqj8-82w4 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8GHSA-8qq9-cqj8-82w4 (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-2026-00661 (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-2026-36504 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8qq9-cqj8-82w4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-6961)Record last updated .