High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.18.0. It has weak permissions for server-local file storage.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20846
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.18.0. It has weak permissions for server-local file storage.
osv:CVE-2019-20846
Complete source record
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:59.590180437Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://mattermost.com/security-updates/"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439353,
"published_at": "2020-06-19T14:15:10.65+00:00"
}