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Mattermost Personal Token

Description#

General#

  • Documentation: https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/personal-access-tokens.html
  • Summary: Mattermost is an open-source messaging app. Tokens allow users to interact with the app. By default only admin users can create personal tokens, so they have full access to the account including System Admin privileges (see doc. Leaking a Mattermost admin personal token is a highly critical incident.
  • IPs allowlist: This feature is not available.
  • Scopes: Personal access tokens share the same permissions as the user.

Revoke the secret#

Tokens can be revoked from the account setting or the system console. Token can also be temporarily deactivated.

Check for suspicious activity#

Logs related to the token can be inspected in the system console.

Details for Mattermost personal token#

  • Family: Api

  • Category: Messaging system

  • Company: Mattermost

  • High recall: False

  • Validity check available: True

  • On-premise instances exist: True

  • Only valid secrets raise an alert: True

  • Minimum number of matches: 2

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 0.58

  • Prefixed: False

  • PreValidators:

- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - mattermost

Examples#

- text: "def mmsend(message,hasData,fpath): #mattermost    SERVER_URL = 'http://oatcouture.tw:8065'    mmKey = '9kih4c69v7bcpbgf174usrlgie'"  host: http://oatcouture.tw:8065  token: 9kih4c69v7bcpbgf174usrlgie
- text: "service: mattermost    url: https://mattermost.my-company.com    personal_token: b957n67ahin90ba4f4dt14966v"  host: https://mattermost.my-company.com  token: b957n67ahin90ba4f4dt14966v
- text: "def fetchUsersFromMattermost do    -   url = 'http://56.91.164.139:8065/api/v4/users'    -   headers = [{'Authorization', 'Bearer jh7cgmr3tod5igzkavtwrhr5ia'}"  host: http://56.91.164.139:8065  token: jh7cgmr3tod5igzkavtwrhr5ia
- text: "mattermost_url = 'https://chat.coworkers.com/api/v4/users'    headers = [{'Authorization', 'Bearer ih7kjnr4otd5igzroptwrhu6op'},    {'Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8'}]"  host: https://chat.coworkers.com  token: ih7kjnr4otd5igzroptwrhu6op