CVE-2023-2831CWE-400

Denial of Service while unescaping a Markdown string

Medium · published June 16, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
51.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Mattermost fails to unescape Markdown strings in a memory-efficient way, allowing an attacker to cause a Denial of Service by sending a message containing a large number of escaped characters.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00678 · 51.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-06-16T09:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUN 09:06Z
    Denial of Service while unescaping a Markdown string
    cvelistv5