Rocket.Chat 1.3 End of Life Date
Rocket.Chat 1.3 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
Rocket.Chat 1.3 was released on August 2, 2019 and support ended on February 29, 2020 — a supported lifespan of 7 months, in line with the 7 months median for Rocket.Chat LTS releases. It was a long-term support (LTS) release, so it received a longer patch window than the interim releases around it. The last patch it will ever receive is 1.3.5, published December 18, 2020 — 10 months after the published end-of-life date. It has been without security patches for 6 years and 6 months. 68 newer Rocket.Chat releases have shipped since.
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When Rocket.Chat 1.3 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running Rocket.Chat 1.3 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to a supported version or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.