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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-46349 EUVD-2026-39054

Mastodon: LD-Signature Bypass via JSON-LD Named-Graph Restructuring

Published Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.5.10, 4.4.17, and 4.3.23, Mastodon's normalization of incoming activities signed with Linked-Data Signatures does not sufficiently protect the activities from a certain class of spoofing, allowing attackers to re-arrange a valid signed JSON-LD activity from a third-party actor to have it processed differently. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.10, 4.4.17, and 4.3.23.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mastodon mastodon >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.10 —

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