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-controll...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Affected packages
Bitnami
mastodon
[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.3"}]}]
References
- advisory borg.social
- advisory hackmd.io
- web nvd.nist.gov