mattermost/mattermost · Security
Mattermost fails to to verify the token used during code exchange
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mp6x-97xj-9x62
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-12421
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Mattermost versions 11.0.x <= 11.0.2, 10.12.x <= 10.12.1, 10.11.x <= 10.11.4, 10.5.x <= 10.5.12 fail to to verify that the token used during the code exchange originates from the same authentication flow, which allows an authenticated user to perform account takeover via a specially crafted email address used when switching authentication methods and sending a request to the /users/login/sso/code-exchange endpoint. The vulnerability requires ExperimentalEnableAuthenticationTransfer to be enabled (default: enabled) and RequireEmailVerification to be disabled (default: disabled).
CWEs
- CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
- CWE-303 · Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12421 ↗
- https://mattermost.com/security-updates ↗
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/5072bbf689a46b3b97b2373f26149f5891396e6b ↗
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/acda1fb5dd46a2f46c76ae67012423c760525eaa ↗
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/f361e7d75a7ab9df5a2106e1ceb919b94b55e41d ↗
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/feb598ed2b7ac3cb78a253b032ad7e4628b0de00 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mp6x-97xj-9x62 ↗