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Lack of permissions prompting when opening external URLs

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.7.0 fail to correctly prompt for permission when opening external URLs which allows a remote attacker to force a victim over the Internet to run arbitrary programs on the victim's system via custom URI schemes.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-37182
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 19:19 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Lack of permissions prompting when opening external URLs

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Jun 2024, 08:39 UTC

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.7.0 fail to correctly prompt for permission when opening external URLs which allows a remote attacker to force a victim over the Internet to run arbitrary programs on the victim's system via custom URI schemes.

osv:CVE-2024-37182
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-37182",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Lack of permissions prompting when opening external URLs",
    "summary": "Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.7.0 fail to correctly prompt for permission when opening external URLs which allows a remote attacker to force a victim over the Internet to run arbitrary programs on the victim's system via custom URI schemes.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-37182",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:31.506819579Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 498674,
  "published_at": "2024-06-14T08:39:19.578+00:00"
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