Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting mattermost-desktop package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (21st
percentile)
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- published 2 Nov 2023
- disclosed 2 Nov 2023
- credit DoyenSec
Introduced: 2 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-5875 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
mattermost-desktop is a Mattermost
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure due to the incorrect handling of permissions or user consent prompts for certain sensitive ones. An attacker can exploit media from a malicious server by manipulating the permission handling process. This is only exploitable if the server is maliciously configured.
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