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CVE-2026-93850: Unbounded memory consumption during PDF text extraction
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-26 · updated 2026-10-26
- Weakness: CWE-409
Description
Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.1, 11.8.x <= 11.8.5, 11.7.x <= 11.7.10, 11.10.x <= 11.10.1 fail to bind the volume of text extracted from an uploaded PDF which allows an authenticated user to exhaust server memory and cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF whose compressed content stream expands into a very large amount of text.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00769
Affected products
- Mattermost: from 11.9.0 through 11.9.1; from 11.8.0 through 11.8.5; from 11.7.0 through 11.7.10; from 11.10.0 through 11.10.1
References
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