NVD / CVE Program· CNA Mattermost

CVE-2024-37182: Lack of permissions prompting when opening external URLs

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 24/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.30% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: mattermost-desktop (npm) 5.8.0.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to mattermost-desktop (npm) 5.8.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 6.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Pre-auth

GHSA-hvxg-77mg-vrvp

Published: Jun 14, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 22th percentile
CWE: CWE-693

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 24 / 40 · 6.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 6.1
CNA · Mattermost: 4.7; 1.4 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Vendor	Product	CPE
mattermost	mattermost desktop	cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_desktop

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

mattermost mattermost desktopup to 5.7.0 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Mattermost). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Mattermost Mattermost
- 5.8.0not affected
- up to and including 5.7.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
npm	mattermost-desktop	before 5.8.0	5.8.0

Same product

mattermost: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2016-11064An issue was discovered in Mattermost Desktop App before 3.4.0.
39Monitor
CVE-2019-20856An issue was discovered in Mattermost Desktop App before 4.3.0 on macOS.
39Monitor
CVE-2019-20861An issue was discovered in Mattermost Desktop App before 4.2.2.
35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-5920Nov 2, 2023 · Lack Of Secure Keyboard Entry Protection in MacOS Desktop
13Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-36287Jun 14, 2024 · Bypass of TCC restrictions on macOS
13Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-39613Sep 16, 2024 · RCE in desktop app in Windows by local attacker
31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
npm:mattermost-desktop	5.8.0	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-4583594 days apartInsufficient Electron Fuses Configuration
26Monitor
CVE-2023-5875225 days apartLack of Hardening against media exploitation from a remote origin
21Monitor
CVE-2024-362870 days apartBypass of TCC restrictions on macOS
13Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope