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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-48028 EUVD-2026-39056

Mastodon: Removal of integrity-protected JSON entries from signed activities

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 threat actors to remove JSON entries from valid signed activities from a third-party actor. 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, >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.17, < 4.3.23 —

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