CVE-2024-8071: Mattermost

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mattermost versions 9.9.x <= 9.9.1, 9.5.x <= 9.5.7, 9.10.x <= 9.10.0 and 9.8.x <= 9.8.2 fail to restrict which roles can promote a user as system admin which allows a System Role with edit access to the permissions section of system console to update their role (e.g. member) to include the `manage_system` permission, effectively becoming a System Admin.

Affected products

• Mattermost Mattermost: from 9.5.0, before 9.5.8 (fixed in 9.5.8); from 9.8.0, before 9.8.3 (fixed in 9.8.3); from 9.9.0, before 9.9.2 (fixed in 9.9.2); from 9.10.0, before 9.10.1 (fixed in 9.10.1)

Published 2024-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.