CVE-2022-46405

Published Dec 4, 2022

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-674

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "11AE4FBF-5DF3-49F0-AAF4-6EB04F94C222",
            "versionEndIncluding": "4.0.2"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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