Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 5, 2024· Updated Aug 2, 2024
Mastodon has improper authorship check on audience extension for existing posts
CVE-2024-37903
Description
Mastodon is a self-hosted, federated microblogging platform. Starting in version 2.6.0 and prior to versions 4.1.18 and 4.2.10, by crafting specific activities, an attacker can extend the audience of a post they do not own to other Mastodon users on a target server, thus gaining access to the contents of a post not intended for them. Versions 4.1.18 and 4.2.10 contain a patch for this issue.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
5- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/a1c7aae28aecf06659c5b18cfa131b37cd1512a3mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/d4bf22b632ea8b1174375c4966a6768ab66393b6mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.18mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.10mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-xjvf-fm67-4qc3mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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