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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.0 High

CVE-2026-6957

Path traversal in Mattermost Legal Hold plugin via unsanitized file name from federated peer allows arbitrary file write.

Description

Mattermost Plugins versions <=1.1.5 fail to sanitize filenames received from federated peers before using them to construct export destination paths, which allows an administrator of a remote federated Mattermost server to write files to arbitrary locations within the target server's filestore via a malicious filename delivered through the shared-channel attachment sync protocol. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00659

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Mattermost Mattermost

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 1.1.5affected
  • .0unaffected

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