Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 5.3

CVE-2017-18905 json

Mattermost Server has Insufficient Session Expiration when used as an OAuth 2.0 service provider

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-g24c-fx4v-xg9w , GO-2026-4306 , EUVD-2017-9995

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.0.0, 3.10.2, and 3.9.2, when used as an OAuth 2.0 service provider, Session invalidation was mishandled.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server 3.9.2, 3.9.2+incompatible, 3.10.2, 3.10.2+incompatible
  • mattermost mattermost_server 3.9.2, 3.10.2
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20260114T191543-150000.1.137.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0142-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Is CVE-2017-18905 in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
<3.9.2
>=3.10.0, <3.10.2
<3.9.2+incompatible
>=3.10.0+incompatible, <3.10.2+incompatible
3.9.2
3.10.2
3.9.2+incompatible
3.10.2+incompatible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-613 DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.