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Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2026-4635 json

Persistent notification timing attack causing server denial of service

published 2026-05-22 5 mo ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also GHSA-pg7c-462j-grxv , GO-2026-5820 , EUVD-2026-31431

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.0, 11.5.x <= 11.5.3, 11.4.x <= 11.4.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.14 fail to archive the channel before removing persistent notifications which allows authenticated user to crash the server via timing the creation of persistent notification message between the server deleting existing persistent notifications and archiving the channel.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00637

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server 10.11.15, 10.11.15+incompatible, 11.4.5, 11.4.5+incompatible, 11.5.4, 11.5.4+incompatible, 11.6.1, 11.6.1+incompatible
  • Mattermost Mattermost 10.11.15, 11.4.5, 11.5.4, 11.6.1, 11.7.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
>=11.6.0, <11.6.1
>=11.5.0, <11.5.4
>=11.4.0, <11.4.5
>=10.11.0, <10.11.15
>=10.11.0+incompatible, <10.11.15+incompatible
>=11.4.0+incompatible, <11.4.5+incompatible
>=11.5.0+incompatible, <11.5.4+incompatible
>=11.6.0+incompatible, <11.6.1+incompatible
11.6.1
11.5.4
11.4.5
10.11.15
10.11.15+incompatible
11.4.5+incompatible
11.5.4+incompatible
11.6.1+incompatible

Affected products

  • Mattermost Mattermost

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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