High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.7.0, 4.6.2, and 4.5.2. An attacker could authenticate to a different user's account via a crafted SAML response.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-21263
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.7.0, 4.6.2, and 4.5.2. An attacker could authenticate to a different user's account via a crafted SAML response.
osv:CVE-2018-21263
Complete source record
{
"id": "482ae14c621f16fae4ebfd749e24d91f91e66b4cdeaa05d53b2eeac6c8be3398",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-21263",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2018-21263",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.7.0, 4.6.2, and 4.5.2. An attacker could authenticate to a different user's account via a crafted SAML response.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-21263",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2018-21263",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-21263"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "03f5c939deb4a6ab2fd01639b5570799e4118bab"
},
{
"introduced": "58defb7424773c75718f0173f4ace702cffa4f0e"
},
{
"fixed": "cc82749d4f8c47bce201123aedcd8c564ceffcb8"
},
{
"introduced": "9a73f9988588b6b1be5711634239381fe9e01d16"
},
{
"last_affected": "9360131992064203f9ee46fa0504d20276c97339"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "4.5.2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "4.6.0"
},
{
"fixed": "4.6.2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server:4.7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "4.7.0-rc1"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.7.0-rc1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server:4.7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "4.7.0-rc2"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.7.0-rc2"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server:4.7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "4.7.0-rc3"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.7.0-rc3"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server:4.7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "4.7.0-rc4"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.7.0-rc4"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"4.7.0-rc1",
"4.7.0-rc2",
"4.7.0-rc3",
"4.7.0-rc4",
"v4.7.0-rc4",
"v4.7.0",
"v4.7.0-rc3",
"v4.7.0-rc2",
"v4.7.0-rc1",
"v4.6.0-rc6",
"v4.6.0-rc5",
"v4.6.0",
"v4.5.0-rc1",
"v4.4.0-rc1",
"v4.3.0-rc1",
"v4.2.0-rc1",
"v0.5.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-21263.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:45.336190536Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://mattermost.com/security-updates/"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2018-21263",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436108,
"published_at": "2020-06-19T17:15:13.067+00:00"
}