Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.8.2, 3.7.5, and 3.6.7. It allows an attacker to specify a full pathname of a log file.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-18912
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 3.8.2, 3.7.5, and 3.6.7. It allows an attacker to specify a full pathname of a log file.
osv:CVE-2017-18912
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:45.320532695Z",
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"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-06-19T19:15:11.997+00:00"
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