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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2023-5333 json

Denial of Service via multiple identical User IDs in /api/v4/users/ids

published 2023-10-09 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-mattermost-2023-5333 , EUVD-2023-57650

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mattermost fails to deduplicate input IDs allowing a simple user to cause the application to consume excessive resources and possibly crash by sending a specially crafted request to /api/v4/users/ids with multiple identical IDs.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami mattermost 7.8.11, 8.0.3, 8.1.2
  • Mattermost Mattermost 7.8.11, 8.0.3, 8.1.2

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami mattermost
<7.8.11
>=8.0.0, <8.0.3
>=8.1.0, <8.1.2
7.8.11
8.0.3
8.1.2

Affected products

  • Mattermost Mattermost

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.