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.
stoatchat before 0.15.5 Denial of Service via mass mentions
Problem type
Affected products
stoatchat
< 0.15.5 - AFFECTED
0.15.5 - UNAFFECTED
References
https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/security/advisories/GHSA-5gq6-v4cf-3qq8
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/stoatchat-before-0.15.5-denial-of-service-via-mass-mentions
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-9pm3-6hxgstoatchat 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.
https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/security/advisories/GHSA-5gq6-v4cf-3qq8
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100675
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/stoatchat-before-0.15.5-denial-of-service-via-mass-mentions
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjgj-9pm3-6hxg
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-100675Click to expand
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