CVE-2025-41423: Unauthorized Playbooks Post Deletion in Mattermost Playbooks Plugin
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-41423 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in mattermost. EPSS estimates a 0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 3.1, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 5Timeline
- 24-04-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 24-04-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Mattermost versions 10.4.x <= 10.4.2, 10.5.x <= 10.5.0, 9.11.x <= 9.11.10 fail to properly validate permissions for the API endpoint /plugins/playbooks/api/v0/signal/keywords/ignore-thread, allowing any user or attacker to delete posts containing actions created by the Playbooks bot, even without channel access or appropriate permissions.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- CVE.orgCNA3.1LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NDiffers
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated3.1LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NDiffers
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated3.1LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.28%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
20%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.01 pp
From 0.27% on 05-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard2 products
- mattermost-fips-10.5< 10.5.3-r3
- mattermost-fips-10.5-compat< 10.5.3-r3
Github.com/mattermost2 products
- mattermost-plugin-playbooks≥ 2.0.0 (No fix recorded) | All versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.41.0
- mattermost-server≥ 9.11.0+incompatible (No fix recorded) | ≥ 10.4.0+incompatible (No fix recorded) | ≥ 10.5.0+incompatible (No fix recorded)
Github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server2 products
- v5All versions (No fix recorded)
- v6All versions (No fix recorded)
Mattermost2 products
- mattermost≥ 10.4.0, ≤ 10.4.2 | 10.5.0 | ≥ 9.11.0, ≤ 9.11.10
- mattermost_serverEOL≥ 9.11.0, < 9.11.11 | ≥ 10.4.0, < 10.4.3 | 10.5.0
Github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server1 product
- v8≥ 10.4.0 (No fix recorded) | ≥ 10.5.0 (No fix recorded) | ≥ 9.11.0 (No fix recorded) | All versions (No fix recorded) | < 8.0.0-20250218121836-2b5275d87136
5 vendors · 9 products