Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-2808

Medium

Published: 29 May 2023

Published
29 May 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.1th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-2808 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Mattermost Mattermost. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Mattermost fails to normalize UTF confusable characters when determining if a preview should be generated for a hyperlink, allowing an attacker to trigger link preview on a disallowed domain using a specially crafted link.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mattermost
mattermost
5.34.0 — 7.1.9 · 7.2.0 — 7.8.4 · 7.9.0 — 7.9.3

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

References