MEDIUM4.7

GHSA-hvxg-77mg-vrvp

Mattermost Desktop App Remote Code Execution

Quick fix

GHSA-hvxg-77mg-vrvp — mattermost-desktop: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install mattermost-desktop@5.8.0

Details

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.

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Affected packages

npm/mattermost-desktop

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 5.8.0

Fixnpm install mattermost-desktop@5.8.0

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37182[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop/commit/1c9fc719dc2b74495a05f7ebc90e92e7daa03e6d[WEB]
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop[PACKAGE]
https://mattermost.com/security-updates[WEB]