# CVE-2026-6689: *Missing* {{invite_user}} *permission check on team creation allows unprivileged users to set open-invite and allowed-domains team settings*

> CVE-2026-6689: *Missing* {{invite_user}} *permission check on team creation allows unprivileged users to set open-invite and allowed-domains team settings*. CVSS 4.3 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-6689
Last updated: 2026-06-18T14:34:19Z

- Published: 2026-06-12 15:51 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-18 14:34 UTC · Assigner: Mattermost
- CVSS: 4.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.15%, 4th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-862

## 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 enforce PermissionInviteUser when setting AllowOpenInvite or AllowedDomains during team creation (the check was only applied on update/patch), which allows an authenticated user holding PermissionCreateTeam but not PermissionInviteUser on the resulting team to configure invite-controlled team settings (make the team publicly joinable via open invite and/or constrain membership via allowed domains) that they are not permitted to set on an existing team via POST /api/v4/teams with allow\_open\_invite: true and/or a non-empty allowed\_domains in the request body.. Mattermost Advisory ID: MMSA-2026-00655

## Affected vendors and products

- Mattermost: Mattermost

## Tracked companies

- [Mattermost](https://rewindex.com/company/mattermost.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6689)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6689)
- [https://mattermost.com/security-updates](https://mattermost.com/security-updates)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-6689 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-6689.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-6689 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:13:33.223Z