Upstream information

CVE-2026-6739 at MITRE

Description

Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.1, 11.5.x <= 11.5.4, 10.11.x <= 10.11.15, 10.11.x <= 10.11.16 fail to require system-level permission when patching protected default system roles, which allows authenticated users with delegated user-management permissions to escalate privileges by altering built-in role permissions via the role patch API.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00656

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (Mattermost) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.7 7.2
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required High High
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact Low High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1 (aarch64,ppc64le,s390x,x86_64)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20260916T180043-160100.1.1 (aarch64,ppc64le,s390x,x86_64)

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.2 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.2 govulncheck-vulndb Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Sep 4 16:37:47 2026
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 14 17:36:20 2026