Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 7.5 CVE-2022-46405 EUVD-2022-49214GHSA-8f7g-vmw6-89m7

Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by creating bot accounts that follow attack…

Published Dec 4, 2022 · Updated Apr 24, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

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.

References