CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-54742
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-09-09
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. From 0.19.18 until 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.20, a community moderator can feature or unfeature posts in other communities through federated CollectionAdd and CollectionRemove activities using CollectionType::Featured. After verify_mod_action authorizes the actor against self.community(), the receive handlers in crates/apub/activities/src/community/collection_add.rs and crates/apub/activities/src/community/collection_remove.rs dereference self.object as an ApubPost and update featured_community without verifying that post.community_id equals community.id. A moderator can therefore target an unrelated post owned by another community, push it into featured feeds and listings, or undo another community's legitimate curation decision. This issue is fixed in versions 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.20.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/108d78c592cc88bac2b0bf52ca6631be54f6fb23 github.com
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/abe256243822526dcd4bca857f7c0adeb49944f5 github.com
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6500 github.com
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6501 github.com
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.19.19 github.com
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/1.0.0-alpha.20 github.com
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/security/advisories/GHSA-gwfj-h8r7-792v github.com
- https://join-lemmy.org/news/2026-06-09_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.19 join-lemmy.org
- https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/security/advisories/GHSA-gwfj-h8r7-792v github.com