Webhook Secret Exposure via Timing attack in MSteams plugin
Mattermost Plugin MSTeams versions <2.1.0 and Mattermost Server versions 10.5.x <=10.5.1 with the MS Teams plugin enabled fail to perform constant time comparison on a MSTeams plugin webhook secret which allows an attacker to retrieve the webhook secret of the MSTeams plugin via a timing attack during webhook secret comparison.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
111 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Mattermost Plugin MSTeams versions <2.1.0 and Mattermost Server versions 10.5.x <=10.5.1 with the MS Teams plugin enabled fail to perform constant time comparison on a MSTeams plugin webhook secret which allows an attacker to retrieve the webhook secret of the MSTeams plugin via a timing attack during webhook secret comparison.
Mattermost vulnerable to Observable Timing Discrepancy in github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-msteams. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-msteams before v2.1.0.
Mattermost Plugin MSTeams versions <2.1.0 and Mattermost Server versions 10.5.x <=10.5.1 with the MS Teams plugin enabled fail to perform constant time comparison on a MSTeams plugin webhook secret which allows an attacker to retrieve the webhook secret of the MSTeams plugin via a timing attack during webhook secret comparison.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/27xxx/CVE-2025-27936.json
- https://mattermost.com/security-updates
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27936
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2j87-p623-8cc2
- https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3618