CVE-2024-24988
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Feb 29, 2024
Updated: Jan 10, 2025
CWE ID 400
Summary
CVE-2024-24988 is a vulnerability affecting Mattermost, a popular open-source team collaboration platform. The issue arises due to insufficient validation of emoji lengths in custom user statuses. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending excessively long strings disguised as emojis multiple times. This results in high resource consumption and potential server crashes. The vulnerability poses a risk of denial-of-service attacks.
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