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High · 8.5 CVE-2024-25623 EUVD-2024-22944

Lack of media type verification of Activity Streams objects allows impersonation of remote accounts

Published Feb 19, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19, when fetching remote statuses, Mastodon doesn't check that the response from the remote server has a `Content-Type` header value of the Activity Streams media type, which allows a threat actor to upload a crafted Activity Streams document to a remote server and make a Mastodon server fetch it, if the remote server accepts arbitrary user uploads. The vulnerability allows a threat actor to impersonate an account on a remote server that satisfies all of the following properties: allows the attacker to register an account; accepts arbitrary user-uploaded documents and places them on the same domain as the ActivityPub actors; and serves user-uploaded document in response to requests with an `Accept` header value of the Activity Streams media type. Versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19 contain a fix for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mastodon mastodon < 3.5.19, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.15, >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.15, >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.7 —

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