01 Record
CVE-2019-20857
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.16.0. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (markdown renderer hang) via many backtick characters.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 5.16.0. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (markdown renderer hang) via many backtick characters.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 65.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-06-19 14:10Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 02:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-06-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b629be91dec2539d6d872343eaf831b0a11235debdb5d1beb5ca455fe949eb1d
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- mattermost.comhttps://mattermost.com/security-updates/