Privilege escalation via unrevoked conversion sessions
Published Feb 24, 2025 · Updated Feb 24, 2025
Session management in Mattermost 9.11.0 through 9.11.6 and 10.4.0 through 10.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to retain bot privileges. ConvertUserToBot returns without calling RevokeAllSessions, so pre-conversion tokens remain valid after the account becomes a bot. An existing session must survive an administrator's conversion of the account, after which access is limited to permissions assigned to the bot.
Summary
What happened
Session management in Mattermost 9.11.0 through 9.11.6 and 10.4.0 through 10.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to retain bot privileges. ConvertUserToBot returns without calling RevokeAllSessions, so pre-conversion tokens remain valid after the account becomes a bot. An existing session must survive an administrator's conversion of the account, after which access is limited to permissions assigned to the bot.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-1412
- Published
- Feb 24, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 24, 2025
- Vendor
- Mattermost
- Product
- Mattermost
- Classifications
- CWE-384, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 24, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 24, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.4.0 <=10.4.1
- Affected versionversion=9.11.0 <=9.11.6
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