Privilege escalation to system admin via personal access tokens

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2515",
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    "title": "Privilege escalation to system admin via personal access tokens",
    "summary": "Mattermost fails to restrict a user with permissions to edit other users and to create personal access tokens from elevating their privileges to system admin",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:34.560138926Z",
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      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 502018,
  "published_at": "2023-05-12T08:53:44.111+00:00"
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