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CVE-2026-7521: SAML certificate deletion allows path traversal to delete arbitrary files outside the config directory

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

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: 0.43% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

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 versions 11.8.x <= 11.8.0, 11.7.x <= 11.7.3, 11.6.x <= 11.6.5, 10.11.x <= 10.11.20 fail to verify file deletion path which allows an admin with SAML system-console write permissions to delete arbitrary files outside the config directory from the server via the remove file endpoint.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00666

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Path traversal

Published: Jul 28, 2026
Updated: Jul 29, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 38th percentile
CWE: CWE-22

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Mattermost: 5.5; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
mattermost	mattermost server	cpe:2.3:a:mattermost:mattermost_server

Affected versions

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

mattermost mattermost server10.11.0 and later · before 10.11.21
mattermost mattermost server11.6.0 and later · before 11.6.6
mattermost mattermost server11.7.0 and later · before 11.7.4
mattermost mattermost server11.8.0 and later · before 11.8.1

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
- 11.9.0, 11.8.1, 11.7.4, 11.6.6, 10.11.21not affected
- 11.8.0 and later · up to and including 11.8.0affected · semver
- 11.7.0 and later · up to and including 11.7.3affected · semver
- 11.6.0 and later · up to and including 11.6.5affected · semver
- 10.11.0 and later · up to and including 10.11.20affected · semver

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Published before and after this one in the same product

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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

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.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

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.

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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

Mattermost Public Bug Bounty Engagement Bugcrowd · paid · up to $2,000

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: Low
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);
2res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);
2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {
3  return res.sendStatus(400);
4}
5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

mattermost.com/security-updates

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