Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.7.1, 5.6.4, 5.5.3, and 4.10.6. It does not honor flags API permissions when deciding whether a user can receive intra-team posts.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20887
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.7.1, 5.6.4, 5.5.3, and 4.10.6. It does not honor flags API permissions when deciding whether a user can receive intra-team posts.
osv:CVE-2019-20887
Complete source record
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