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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-41259 EUVD-2026-25282

Mastodon: Insufficient verification of email addresses

Published Apr 23, 2026 · Updated Apr 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to v4.5.9, v4.4.16, and v4.3.22, Mastodon allows restricting new user sign-up based on e-mail domain names, and performs basic validation on e-mail addresses, but fails to restrict characters that are interpreted differently by some mailing servers. This vulnerability is fixed in v4.5.9, v4.4.16, and v4.3.22.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mastodon mastodon < 4.3.22, >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.16, >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.9 —

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