Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.2.0, 4.1.1, and 4.0.5, when used as an OAuth 2.0 service provider. It mishandles a deny action for a redirection.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-18897
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.2.0, 4.1.1, and 4.0.5, when used as an OAuth 2.0 service provider. It mishandles a deny action for a redirection.
osv:CVE-2017-18897
Complete source record
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