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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-27157 EUVD-2025-5448

Mastodon's rate-limits are missing on `/auth/setup`

Published Feb 27, 2025 · Updated Feb 27, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mastodon is a self-hosted, federated microblogging platform. Starting in version 4.2.0 and prior to versions 4.2.16 and 4.3.4, the rate limits are missing on `/auth/setup`. Without those rate limits, an attacker can craft requests that will send an email to an arbitrary addresses. Versions 4.2.16 and 4.3.4 fix the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mastodon mastodon >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.16, >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.4 —

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