CVE-2026-8074Improper Permission Check Allows User Manager to Deactivate Bot Accounts
- 3.8LowCVSS base score
- 0.32%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 75% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.0, 10.11.x <= 10.11.17 fail to enforce bot-specific permission checks on the user active status endpoint, which allows a User Manager with user management write access but no Integrations access to deactivate bot accounts via the PUT /api/v4/users/{id}/active API endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00667
Timeline
ID reserved
By Mattermost
- 46 days later
· 46 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 | Low3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Low3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% 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: Low 3.8.
Affected products
- affected 11.7.0 – ≤ 11.7.0
- affected 10.11.0 – ≤ 10.11.17
- unaffected 11.8.0
- unaffected 11.7.1
- unaffected 10.11.18
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/mattermost/mattermost-serverGHSA-g5vr-6pgg-74qv (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update Mattermost to versions 11.8.0, 11.7.1, 10.11.18 or higher.
References
References1
- MMSA-2026-00667 (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-2026-38248 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g5vr-6pgg-74qv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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