What is CVE-2023-5875?

CVE-2023-5875 is a low-severity vulnerability in Mattermost Desktop, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2023-11-02.

How severe is CVE-2023-5875?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Mattermost Desktop

CVE-2023-5875

Mattermost Desktop fails to correctly handle permissions or prompt the user for consent on certain sensitive ones allowing media exploitation from a malicious mattermost server

Published 2023-11-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (23.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 23.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mattermost Desktop — versions 0, 5.5.1
Mattermost Desktop

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-693 — Protection Mechanism Failure

References

mattermost.com/security-updates (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5875?: CVE-2023-5875 is a low-severity vulnerability in Mattermost Desktop, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2023-11-02.
How severe is CVE-2023-5875?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.