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Denial of Service via HTTP/2 single packet attack on login endpoint

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Mattermost versions 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1, 11.2.x <= 11.2.3, 10.11.x <= 10.11.11 fail to rate limit login requests which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service (server crash and restart) via HTTP/2 single packet attack with 100+ parallel login requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00566

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-26233
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
5 Nov 2026, 01:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Denial of Service via HTTP/2 single packet attack on login endpoint

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Mar 2026, 16:24 UTC

Mattermost versions 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1, 11.2.x <= 11.2.3, 10.11.x <= 10.11.11 fail to rate limit login requests which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service (server crash and restart) via HTTP/2 single packet attack with 100+ parallel login requests.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2025-00566

osv:CVE-2026-26233
Complete source record
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