CVE-2026-16044

🔶 medium

Summary

Mattermost versions 11.7.x <= 11.7.6, 10.11.x <= 10.11.21 fail to prevent guest users from receiving Board Admin privileges during board archive import which allows a board member to escalate a guest user to Board Admin via importing a crafted .boardarchive file. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00672

CVSS Score

5.4

Medium

EPSS Score

0.2

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-08-17

First Seen: 2026-08-18

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 22.4% of all 348,695 vulnerabilities in our database.

#270,713

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Aug 17, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

ilent0

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-08-18

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-863

📦 Affected Products 2

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
mattermost	mattermost_server	Affected	> 10.11.0 < 10.11.22
mattermost	mattermost_server	Affected	> 11.7.0 < 11.7.7

🔗 References 1

https://mattermost.com/security-updates

Vendor Advisory

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