Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.7.3 and 3.6.5. A System Administrator can place a SAML certificate at an arbitrary pathname.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-18918
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.7.3 and 3.6.5. A System Administrator can place a SAML certificate at an arbitrary pathname.
osv:CVE-2017-18918
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:44.510290684Z",
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"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-06-19T20:15:12.587+00:00"
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