2026-09-26 13:23CVE-2026-100675VulnCheck
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-248

stoatchat before 0.15.5 Denial of Service via mass mentions

stoatchat versions before 0.15.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the acknowledgement worker that processes mass mention messages. Authenticated users can send five crafted role-mention messages to terminate all acknowledgement workers, disabling push notifications and mention badges deployment-wide until the API process restarts.

Problem type

Affected products

stoatchat

stoatchat

< 0.15.5 - AFFECTED

0.15.5 - UNAFFECTED

References

GitHub Security Advisories

GHSA-gjgj-9pm3-6hxg

stoatchat versions before 0.15.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the acknowledgement...

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjgj-9pm3-6hxg

stoatchat versions before 0.15.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the acknowledgement worker that processes mass mention messages. Authenticated users can send five crafted role-mention messages to terminate all acknowledgement workers, disabling push notifications and mention badges deployment-wide until the API process restarts.

JSON source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-100675
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