CVE-2022-46405

published 2022-12-04

CVE-2022-46405: Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by creating bot accounts that follow attacker-controlled…

Priority P4 33 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by creating bot accounts that follow attacker-controlled accounts on certain other servers associated with a wildcard DNS A record, such that there is uncontrolled recursion of attacker-generated messages.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
joinmastodon	mastodon	<= 4.0.2	—

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