CVE-2026-6850

Summary

Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.2, 11.6.x <= 11.6.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.19 fail to validate the length and content of message attachment field values, which allows an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service for all users in a channel via a post containing a specially crafted payload that triggers catastrophic backtracking in the client-side markdown parser.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00658

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MattermostMattermost11.7.0 <= 11.7.2affected
MattermostMattermost11.6.0 <= 11.6.4affected
MattermostMattermost10.11.0 <= 10.11.19affected
MattermostMattermost11.8.0unaffected
MattermostMattermost11.7.3unaffected
MattermostMattermost11.6.5unaffected
MattermostMattermost10.11.20unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References