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CVE-2025-27538 (GCVE-0-2025-27538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 07:45 – Updated: 2025-04-16 14:34
VLAI
Title
MFA Enforcement Bypass Allows Unauthorized Removal of MFA for Other Users
Summary
Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.1, 9.11.x <= 9.11.9 fail to enforce MFA checks in PUT /api/v4/users/user-id/mfa when the requesting user differs from the target user ID, which allows users with edit_other_users permission to activate or deactivate MFA for other users, even if those users have not set up MFA.
Severity
2.2 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-16 14:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mattermost Mattermost Affected: 10.5.0 , ≤ 10.5.1 (semver)
Affected: 9.11.0 , ≤ 9.11.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 10.6.0
Unaffected: 10.5.2
Unaffected: 9.11.10
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