BIT-mastodon-2022-46405
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Summary:
Details: Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by creating bot accounts that follow attacker-controlled accounts on certain other servers associated with a wildcard DNS A record, such that there is uncontrolled recursion of attacker-generated messages.
References: https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n, https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46405
Affected packages
Package
Name: mastodon
Purl: pkg:bitnami/mastodon
Affected ranges
Type: SEMVER
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -4.0.3
Affected versions
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
