CVE-2026-2456: Denial of Service via Unbounded Memory Allocation in Integration Actions

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-789

Description

Mattermost versions 11.3.x <= 11.3.0, 11.2.x <= 11.2.2, 10.11.x <= 10.11.10 Mattermost fails to limit the size of responses from integration action endpoints, which allows an authenticated attacker to cause server memory exhaustion and denial of service via a malicious integration server that returns an arbitrarily large response when a user clicks an interactive message button.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00571

Affected products

Mattermost: from 10.11.0 before 10.11.11; from 11.2.0 before 11.2.3; from 11.3.0 before 11.3.1 — fixed in 10.11.11, 11.2.3, 11.3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mattermost 10.11.11, 11.2.3, 11.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://mattermost.com/security-updates

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