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stoatchat before 0.15.5 Denial of Service via mass mentions

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severity
high
date
Affecting

  • stoatchat >= 0, < 0.15.5

CWE
  • CWE-248 Uncaught Exception
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
QuentinRa
Description
stoatchat versions before 0.15.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the acknowledgement worker that processes mass mention messages. Authenticated users can send five crafted role-mention messages to terminate all acknowledgement workers, disabling push notifications and mention badges deployment-wide until the API process restarts.

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