CVE-2023-5875
Lack of Hardening against media exploitation from a remote origin
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Lack of Hardening against media exploitation from a remote origin
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
- Record
CVE-2023-5875- CVSS 3.1
- 3.7 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-693
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-58148
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
- Record
EUVD-2023-58148- CVSS 3.1
- 3.7 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2vpw-vxmx-p733
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on...
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
- Record
GHSA-2vpw-vxmx-p733- CVSS 3.1
- 3.7 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-693
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
- Record
CVE-2023-5875- CVSS 3.1
- 3.7 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-693
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Lack of Hardening against media exploitation from a remote origin
Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server
- Record
CVE-2023-5875- CVSS 3.1
- 3.7 Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-693
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2023-5875 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 3.7) in Mattermost Desktop, published November 2, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.39%, the 33rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.