Medium 4.3Published Aug 10, 2026

CVE-2026-72919Rocket.Chat: Broken Access Control in channels.convertToTeam Allows Unauthorized Conversion of Public Channels into Teams

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:30 UTC)

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Rocket.Chat is an open-source, secure, fully customizable communications platform. Prior to 7.10.14, 8.0.8, 8.1.7, 8.2.7, 8.3.7, 8.4.5, 8.5.2, and 8.6.1, the channels.convertToTeam REST endpoint allows an authenticated registered user with the create-team permission to convert an unrelated public channel by supplying channelName instead of channelId because the edit-room permission is checked only for channelId. This issue is fixed in versions 7.10.14, 8.0.8, 8.1.7, 8.2.7, 8.3.7, 8.4.5, 8.5.2, and 8.6.1.

CVSS: 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Aug 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

RocketChat Rocket.Chat rocketchat:rocket.chat (from the name)	before 7.10.14; from 8.0.0, < 8.0.8; from 8.1.0, < 8.1.7; from 8.2.0, < 8.2.7; from 8.3.0, < 8.3.7; from 8.4.0, < 8.4.5; from 8.5.0, < 8.5.2; from 8.6.0, < 8.6.1	CNA record

References

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/security/advisories/GHSA-4mvx-9h2h-hmg3x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/41206x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/commit/175a19c4151f41910499ef37df54f58022276d12x-refsource-misc

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