Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting mattermost-desktop package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MATTERMOSTDESKTOP-6043179
  • published2 Nov 2023
  • disclosed2 Nov 2023
  • creditDoyenSec

Introduced: 2 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-5875  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

CVSS Scores

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