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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2025-3230 EUVD-2025-16491GHSA-mc2f-jgj6-6cp3GO-2025-3731

Bypass of System Admin User Deactivation Controls for Personal Access Tokens in Mattermost Server

Published May 30, 2025 · Updated May 30, 2025 · Assigned by Mattermost

Description

Mattermost versions 10.7.x <= 10.7.0, 10.6.x <= 10.6.2, 10.5.x <= 10.5.3, 9.11.x <= 9.11.12 fails to properly invalidate personal access tokens upon user deactivation, allowing deactivated users to maintain full system access by exploiting access token validation flaws via continued usage of previously issued tokens.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Mattermost Mattermost 10.7.0, 10.6.0 – ≤ 10.6.2, 10.5.0 – ≤ 10.5.3, 9.11.0 – ≤ 9.11.12 10.8.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250612T141001-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15225-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server >= 9.0.0-rc1+incompatible, < 9.11.13+incompatible · >= 10.0.0-rc1+incompatible, < 10.5.4+incompatible · >= 10.6.0-rc1+incompatible, < 10.6.3+incompatible · >= 10.7.0-rc1+incompatible, < 10.7.1+incompatible 9.11.13+incompatible, 10.5.4+incompatible, 10.6.3+incompatible, 10.7.1+incompatible GO-2025-3731
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5 all versions — GO-2025-3731
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6 all versions — GO-2025-3731
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 >= 10.7.0-rc1, < 10.7.1 10.7.1 GHSA-mc2f-jgj6-6cp3
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 >= 10.6.0-rc1, < 10.6.3 10.6.3 GHSA-mc2f-jgj6-6cp3
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 >= 10.0.0-rc1, < 10.5.4 10.5.4 GHSA-mc2f-jgj6-6cp3
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 >= 9.0.0-rc1, < 9.11.13 9.11.13 GHSA-mc2f-jgj6-6cp3
Go github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 < 8.0.0-20250402193107-65343f84a783 8.0.0-20250402193107-65343f84a783 GHSA-mc2f-jgj6-6cp3

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