CVE-2026-6850: Mattermost Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Mattermost Mattermost Server: from 10.11.0, before 10.11.20 (fixed in 10.11.20); from 11.6.0, before 11.6.5 (fixed in 11.6.5); from 11.7.0, before 11.7.3 (fixed in 11.7.3)

Published 2026-07-13. Last modified 2026-07-13.