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…
High · published December 4, 2022
What it is
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.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00982 · 61.9th percentile
- Published
- 2022-12-04T00:00Z
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