CVE-2022-46405 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Joinmastodon	Mastodon

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n
https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A

History

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-24T15:19:38.915Z

Reserved: 2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-46405

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:31:46.361Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-04T04:15:09.380

Modified: 2025-04-24T16:15:24.133

Link: CVE-2022-46405

Redhat

No data.

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