CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-46405
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
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 configurations
• joinmastodon mastodon (<= 4.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory