CVE-2023-35075 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mattermost fails to use innerText / textContent when setting the channel name in the webapp during autocomplete, allowing an attacker to inject HTML to a victim's page by create a channel name that is valid HTML. No XSS is possible though.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0051.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Mattermost	Mattermost

Configuration 1 [-]

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Fixes

Solution

Update Mattermost Server to versions 7.8.13, 8.1.4 or higher.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://mattermost.com/security-updates

History

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Mattermost

Published: 2023-11-27T09:09:19.659Z

Updated: 2025-06-03T14:01:04.187Z

Reserved: 2023-11-20T12:06:31.656Z

Link: CVE-2023-35075

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T16:23:58.680Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-27T10:15:07.257

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:07:55.753

Link: CVE-2023-35075

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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