CVE-2022-46405

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
Link Resource
https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A Exploit Issue Tracking
https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

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

Information

Published : 2022-12-04 04:15

Updated : 2022-12-06 12:55


NVD link : CVE-2022-46405

Mitre link : CVE-2022-46405

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion