CVE-2023-5196

Summary

CVE-2023-5196 is a vulnerability affecting Mattermost, an open-source team communication platform. The issue arises from the application's failure to enforce character limits in all notification properties. An attacker can exploit this by sending excessively long values for a notification_prop, causing the server to consume excessive computing resources. This can lead to temporary unavailability of the Mattermost server for its users.

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