Description
stoatchat versions before 0.15.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the acknowledgement worker that processes mass mention messages. Authenticated users can send five crafted role-mention messages to terminate all acknowledgement workers, disabling push notifications and mention badges deployment-wide until the API process restarts.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| stoatchat | stoatchat | < 0.15.5 | 0.15.5 |
References
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-5gq6-v4cf-3qq8) vendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: stoatchat before 0.15.5 Denial of Service via mass mentions third-party-advisory