# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-20621"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-16T18:16:28.042Z"
updatedAt: "2025-01-16T18:57:02.927Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:24.991Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-20621"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-20621.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20621"
title: "Webapp crash via object that can't be cast to String in Attachment Field"
summary: "Mattermost versions 10.2.x \u003c= 10.2.0, 9.11.x \u003c= 9.11.5, 10.0.x \u003c= 10.0.3, 10.1.x \u003c= 10.1.3 fail to properly handle posts with attachments containing fields that cannot be cast to a String, which allows an attacker to cause the webapp to crash via creating and sending such a post to a channel."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10.2.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"10.2.0"},{"version":"9.11.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"9.11.5"},{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"10.0.3"},{"version":"10.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"10.1.3"},{"version":"10.3.0","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"2.23.0","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"10.2.1","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"9.11.6","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"10.0.4","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"10.1.4","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"Mattermost","product":"Mattermost","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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