GHSA-hvxg-77mg-vrvp

Mattermost Desktop App Remote Code Execution

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-37182

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	mattermost-desktop	< 5.8.0	5.8.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.7.0 fail to correctly prompt for permission when opening external URLs which allows a remote attacker to force a victim over the Internet to run arbitrary programs on the victim's system via custom URI schemes.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37182 advisory
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop/commit/1c9fc719dc2b74495a05f7ebc90e92e7daa03e6d web
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop package
https://mattermost.com/security-updates web