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CVE-2022-46405

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2022-12-04 Modified: 2026-06-17

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 Platforms

Joinmastodon Mastodon

Weakness Type

CWE-674, CWE-674

References