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CVE-2024-45835 — mattermost-desktop

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CVE-2024-45835 is a low-severity (CVSS 2.5) CWE-693 vulnerability in mattermost-desktop. A fix is available for mattermost-desktop — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Insufficient Electron Fuses Configuration

Also known asBIT-mattermost-2024-45835GHSA-xgq9-7gw6-jr5r
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 6, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-45835.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs11th percentile — riskier than 11% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.29%0.58%0.86%0.4%0.2%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

0other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
mattermost-desktopnpm
25downloads / week

Description

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.8.0 fail to sufficiently configure Electron Fuses which allows an attacker to gather Chromium cookies or abuse other misconfigurations via remote/local access.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmmattermost-desktopall versions5.9.0npm install mattermost-desktop@5.9.0

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
mattermost desktopmattermost
< 5.9.0
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for mattermost-desktop, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update mattermost-desktop to 5.9.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-45835 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

Mattermost Desktop App versions <=5.8.0 fail to sufficiently configure Electron Fuses which allows an attacker to gather Chromium cookies or abuse other misconfigurations via remote/local access.
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CVE-2024-45835: mattermost-desktop — Fixed in 5.9.0