CVE-2024-1402
Denial of service in mattermost mobile apps and server via emoji reactions
Summary
Denial of service in mattermost mobile apps and server via emoji reactions
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobile app of a user seeing the post and to crash the server due to overloading when clients attempt to retrive the aforementioned post.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- web mattermost.com