CVE-2026-12882: Mattermost Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7, 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to parse Markdown autolinks with unmatched trailing closing parentheses in linear time, which allows an authenticated user with permission to create posts to cause excessive server CPU consumption and degrade availability for other users via specially crafted post or message attachment content. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00703

Affected products

• Mattermost Mattermost Server: from 10.11.0, before 10.11.23 (fixed in 10.11.23); from 11.7.0, before 11.7.8 (fixed in 11.7.8); from 11.8.0, before 11.8.5 (fixed in 11.8.5); from 11.9.0, before 11.9.1 (fixed in 11.9.1)

Published 2026-09-14. Last modified 2026-10-07.