CVE-2026-2462 PUBLISHED

Admin RCE via Malicious Plugin Upload on CI Test Instances

Assigner: Mattermost
Reserved: 13.02.2026 Published: 16.03.2026 Updated: 16.03.2026

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 fail to restrict plugin installation on CI test instances with default admin credentials which allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution and exfiltrate sensitive configuration data including AWS and SMTP credentials via uploading a malicious plugin after changing the import directory. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00528

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 6.6

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	High	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	Low

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Mattermost
Product	Mattermost
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 11.3.0 to 11.3.0 (incl.) affected from 11.2.0 to 11.2.2 (incl.) affected from 10.11.0 to 10.11.10 (incl.) Version 11.4.0 is unaffected Version 11.3.1 is unaffected Version 11.2.3 is unaffected Version 10.11.11 is unaffected

Solutions

Update Mattermost to versions 11.4.0, 11.3.1, 11.2.3, 10.11.11 or higher.

Credits

daw10 finder

References

MMSA-2025-00528

Problem Types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization CWE