High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the invite_people slash command.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-21258
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.1. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the invite_people slash command.
osv:CVE-2018-21258
Complete source record
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